Empire and information: intelligence gathering and social communication in India, 1780-1870

1. Prologue: surveillance and communication in early modern India

2. Political intelligence and indigenous informants during the conquest of India, c. 1785-1815

3. Misinformation and failure on the fringes of empire

4. Between human intelligence and colonial knowledge

5. Indian ecumene: an indigenous public sphere

6. Useful knowledge and godly society, c. 1830-50

7. Colonial controversies: astronomers and physicians

8. Colonial controversies: language and land

9. information order, the Rebellion of 1857-9 and pacification

10. Epilogue: information, surveillance and the public arena after the Rebellion

Conclusion: 'Knowing the country'.