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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    11 September 2026
    24 December 2026
    ISBN:
    9781009774581
    9781009774604
    9781009774598
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009774581
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.56kg, 318 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    318 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    This book is an attempt at highlighting the intellectual and cultural history of British imperial knowledge production in late-nineteenth-century India, examined through the life and writings of William Wilson Hunter (1840–1900). Tracing Hunter's role as an imperial bureaucrat, historian, and publicist, the book explores how his works sought to shape colonial governance through structured information systems and a rhetoric of 'improvement'; an intellectual enterprise that drew the interests of contemporary stalwarts across the continents, such as Rabindranath Tagore and Charles Darwin. It also examines how Bengali intellectuals, such as Rabindranath Tagore, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and others engaged with and contested Hunter's ideas, opening up new directions in nationalist thought and historiography. It strives to offer a new outlook on the mutual entanglements of empire and knowledge, and the political life of texts in colonial Bengal.

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