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In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science.

Mapping an Empire The Geographical Construction

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 May 1999
      ISBN-13 9780226184883
      978-0226184883
      ISBN-10 0226184889
      Also in:
      Historical geography History of science

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      Book Synopsis
      In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science.

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