Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution

by Jessica Ratcliff

In the nineteenth century, an ambitious new library and museum for Indian arts, sciences, and natural history was established. Run by government employees and funded with taxes, India's first national museum was thousands of miles away from the land from which it grew, in the City of London, within the headquarters of the East India Company. Jessica Ratcliff documents how the growth of science at the Company depended upon its sweeping monopoly privileges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009379496
• ISBN13: 9781009379496
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages