Mundane knowledge of how information flows is essential for a proper understanding of
large organisations and complex activities. It gives us valuable insights into the prevailing …

Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880s' departs from the
dominant scholarship in South Asian history that focuses narrowly on railways, and instead …

Highlighting diverse types of market places and merchants, this book situates the
commercial scenario of early India (up to c. ad 1300) in the overall agrarian material milieu …

So far, the history of telegraphy has been written from a technological perspective and, as a
result, as a history of Western progress and modernity. In contrast, this book focuses on the …

Adam Silverstein's book offers a fascinating account of the official methods of
communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk …

India, the Conclusoesof Antonio de Quadros, followed one year later, in 1558, by the first
book printed in an Indian language (Tamil). This Jesuit press, housed in the College of St …

Britain introduced telegraphs in its colonial empires in order to tighten its control over its
subjects. Thus, the British in India used their new telegraph lines to repress the Indian …

This essay examines the historical relationship between empire and information in late
nineteenth-and early twentieth-century British Asia through a new examination of the …

Presenting a communicational perspective on the British empire in India during the 20th
century, the book seeks to examine how, and explain why, British proconsuls, civil servants …

In 1800, local merchants working for the English East India Company's contracting brokers
and the Commercial Board in Surat complained that people employed by one Vamal the …