Reviews for Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company

The average rating for Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-07 00:00:00 Debby P. Mcgrath The book is an overview of the power of print. Each chapter address a function that text served in crystalising the EIC's position as a major player in Modern India. Communication, promulgation, standardisation of business, arguing for or against business, learning and transforming Indian cultural landscape. Ogborn situates his arguments in the midst of contemporary theory on power and language. The book is a fitting prequel to Chalapathy's The Province of the Book.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-02-09 00:00:00 Jared Guss It's kind of like a Foucauldian analysis of the East India Company, but without the jargon and gratuitous po-mo name dropping. The Introduction, however, should be torn out and burnt. It's like he had to name drop every major post-colonial or history of the book author he could think of in the first twenty pages just to get it out of his system. Then the good stuff begins. Seriously, just tear it out and start with the second chapter.