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(To Make) Truth Material: Rajani Sudan’s The Alchemy of Empire and the Persistent Sublimity of Colonial Knowing
- The Eighteenth Century
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 60, Number 4, Winter 2019
- pp. 473-477
- 10.1353/ecy.2019.0031
- Article
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Abstract:
Review of Rajani Sudan’s The Alchemy of Empire: Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism, a book examining the appropriation and treatment of indigenous knowledge and technologies in eighteenth-century British texts about India.