Empire and its functionary masters

The Mughal Empire and Its Successors*

Political history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 The imperial structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 The social and economic framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 High culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 State and religion . ...

Cinchona in the Empire, Progress and Prospects of Its Cultivation

, At present at least, quinine cannot be produced synthetically. Yet it is estimated that some 800 million persons are attacked every year in the tropics by malaria, and according to Sir Ronald Ross more than two million deaths occur annually from the disease. The economic Joss due to the disease is put down by Dr. Andrew Balfour at between ?52 and ?62 millions a year. Prior to 1880 the world's...

Racism, Empire and Sociology

‘[T]he entity called Europe was constructed from the outside in as much as from the inside out.’ So wrote Mary Louise Pratt, at the start of Imperial Eyes (1992: 6), her insightful account of colonial travelogue. Pratt’s point provides a pithy summary of one of the central claims of what was, at the time, the still emerging field of postcolonial studies (in which context, of course, Imperial Ey...

Verbatims and "Empire Matters".

Globish and the empire.