Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780 1870 by C.A. Bayly

Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780 1870

Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society

C.A. Bayly

428 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies, runners and political secretaries were recruited by the British to secure information about their subjects. He al...

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