In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of thes...
the British Empire in the 19 th century (Dave Muddiman, "Information and Empire"); the nature and role of the often neglected in-house newsletter in corporate formation (Alistair Black, "'A Valuable Handbook of Information'"); and, perhaps most unique in this volume, the role that ...
In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of thes...
My parents were both born in villages in Jalandhar, India, during the British Empire, in very poor families. Neither of them was able to go to school, which was one of the greatest regrets of my father’s life. My grandfather was killed accidentally when quite young, and as the eldest ...
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the Canadian currency with the American unit, but the imperial authorities in London still preferred the idea of sterling to be the sole currency throughout the British Empire. In 1851, the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada passed an act for the purposes of introducing a pound sterling...
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(IMF). Its bailout recipes – privatisation, trade, liberalization and other austerity reforms – amount to seizing the target countries’ natural resources, and turning them over to the NOW elites – just as surely as the British Empire did by using cruder methods.”–Bob Djurdjevic, ...
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