Empires of the Mind A History of Oxford University Press in India under the Raj

by Chatterjee, Rimi B.

• ISBN13: 9780195674743
• ISBN10: 019567474X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"This superbly researched volume, based on extensive archival use in a unique, cogent, and spontaneous history of the Press in India. With its rare archival photographs and appendices, it will interest research scholars of Indian history, general readers interested in the Raj era, students, and all those associated with the publishing industry."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Rimi B. Chatterjee is a Lecture in English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
List of Photographs	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRESS
The `Learned Imprimerie': An Overview from the Beginnings to the Present	17	(28)
The `Campaign of Methodizing': The Removal of Philip Lyttelton Gell	45	(18)
`Use Your Best Endeavours': From 1900 to the Establishment of the Branch	63	(37)
`A Good Bold Hand': From 1912 to the End of World War I	100	(24)
The Bookwalas: From 1918 to the Beginning of World War II	124	(35)
`Empires of the Future': World War II, Independence, and After	159	(24)
THE OXFORD BOOKS
`Petrifactions of Bygone Ages': The Sacred Books of the East	183	(21)
`A Thrilling Chapter': The Rulers of India	204	(28)
`The True Facts of the Case': Scholars of the Raj	232	(19)
`Mine Should be Different': Scholars among Indians	251	(25)
`Rocks of Inconvenient Fact': Vincent Smith and the Histories of India	276	(42)
`Puckeroo': Readers, Dictionaries, Anthologies, and Grammars	318	(38)
`India of Today': Science, Economics, Politics, and Geography	356	(27)
`Exotic Blossoms': Scholars, Babus, and Maharajas	383	(64)
APPENDICES
Export Customers in 1882-1883	415	(2)
Frowde's Presentation Lists 1904	417	(1)
Titles for the Travellers	418	(3)
Table of Indian Price Equivalents	421	(2)
Milford's Presentation Lists 1907-1912	423	(12)
Sacred Books of the East	435	(2)
Lists of Farquhar's series	437	(2)
Rulers of India	439	(3)
Classics of Indian History	442	(1)
Oxford Pamphlets on Indian Affairs	443	(2)
Extracts from Condensed Accounts 1912-1950	445	(2)
Bibliography	447	(4)
Index	451