A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.

Selection of papers presented at a conference 'Art, Patronage and Society in the Muslim Deccan from the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day' (4-6 July 2008) at St. Antony's College, Oxford, with support from the John Fell Fund, Barakat Trust and Alessandro Bruschettini.

This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.