Monopolizing Knowledge: the East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution

Contents:

• Part one: The making of company science, 1600-1813
• Chapter one: Science under the company before company science -- A mathematical lecturer for the city of London -- Science and the company before collecting and the internal free trade 
• Chapter two: The roots of company science in Asia -- Tipu Sultan's Plunder -- Disaster orientalism and private accumulation -- The sciences of the permanent settlement 
• Chapter three: The pull of company science to London -- The Tigers of Leadenhall Street -- Incorporating the Nabobs -- The New Library-Museum at India House -- The company's British colleges 
   
• Part two: From company science to public science, 1813-58 
• Chapter four: Patterns of accumulation -- Alexander Von Humboldt's rejection -- Territorial expansion and post-war surveys -- The charter of 1813: Company science in defense of the monopoly -- Missions and subterfuge -- Rangoon relics for a racquet-ball court 
• Chapter five: Systematic possession -- James Mill's man in the closet -- Philosophical histories -- Philosophical natural histories -- Monopolies and networks 
• Chapter six: Becoming national -- A radical pearl merchant's demand -- The charter of 1833: The lLibrary-museum in the era of reform -- How to break a knowledge monopoly -- Fossils in the old pay office -- Chapter seven: The commercializing mission -- Margaret Tytler's model India -- The library-museum and company science in British India after the science of trade and industry -- From the great exhibition to the great rebellion 
• Conclusion