Colonial India and the Raj

Was lazy last month, not because of lack of time or energy, but lack of motivation to add words on the blog. Been reading colonial India stuff because of a constructive note from Peter Korniki.

First of all, it is Rimi B. Chatterjee's inspiring book Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India under the Raj (New Delhi: OUP, 2006) in which I have found the clues of K & W in engagining trans-continental book trade with OUP long before the note. I have now began a closer reading on this rich archival works. Gyan Prakash's illunimating work: Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (PUP, 1999), which has become the classics in the field of the Raj, and, to a larger extent, colonial form of knowledge, is another work I found interesting.

I need a well-defined framework for K & W, or broadly speaking, British cultural colonialism/imperialism to make significant historial sense.