Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants, and Craftsmen: Making L’Empereur’s Jardin in Early Modern South Asia

Chapter 3 Circulation and the Emergence of Modern Mapping: Great Britain and Early Colonial India, 1764–1820

Chapter 4 Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust: William Jones, Indian Intermediaries, and the Production of Reliable Legal Knowledge in Late-Eighteenth-Century Bengal

Chapter 5 British Orientalism in the Early Nineteenth Century, or Globalism versus Universalism

Chapter 6 Defusing Diffusionism: The Institutionalization of Modern Science Education in Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Chapter 7 When Human Travellers become Instruments: The Indo-British Exploration of Central Asia in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 8 Conclusion