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Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870

Bayly, C.A. Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

C.A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, is renowned for his studies of eighteenth century India. In this volume, he argues that the British conquered India and maintained its rule because of military dominance which was linked to, even based on, superior intelligence. This intelligence was originally based solely on indigenous sources a class of scribes, managers, and runners-but the British later added their own intelligence networks and were suspicious of and tried to suppress ...

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