Joshua Ehrlich
@drjehrlich.bsky.social
Historian of knowledge, books, political thought, British Empire, South Asia, Indian Ocean World | Assoc Prof @ UMacau | Assoc Scholar @ Harvard | Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367967 | Webpage: fah.um.edu.mo/joshua-ehrlich/
Now out: my essay on the global trajectories of cosmopolitanism doi.org/10.1080/0191...
Towards global histories of cosmopolitanism
The afterword addresses a tension in the concept of cosmopolitanism between its European origins and its global purview. It identifies, with the help of the foregoing essays, four frameworks that s...
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A new review of The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (@universitypress.cambridge.org), from The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History : muse.jhu.edu/article/994755
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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New issue of HEI has a symposium on my book, The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP). Essays by Sujit Sivasundaram, Nandini Chatterjee, Jessica Ratcliff, Simon Mills,and me. Foreword by Jessica Patterson (omitted by error, but online). www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhei20/c...
History of European Ideas
Volume 52, Issue 4 of History of European Ideas
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Fascinating: the story of the Calcutta Madrasa's move to Dhaka after partition. Excited about the prospect of its archives becoming available... www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/f...
Mohajir manuscripts: Field notes from Dhaka Aliya Madrasa
On 20 August 1947, the Director of Public Instruction for the Education Directorate of the newly created state of West Bengal, S. Dutta, issued an order—“in view of the decision of the Separation Offi...
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What did Adam Ferguson think of the East India Company? Find out here: www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/... @scottishhistreview.bsky.social
Adam Ferguson on the British Empire in India | The Scottish Historical Review
The Scottish philosophe Adam Ferguson’s views on the British empire—especially beyond the Atlantic context—have proved elusive. This Document draws upon a new letter of Ferguson to show that these vie...
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Pics from the Macau Litfest a couple weeks ago: My interview with Amitav Ghosh
Why was the East India Company so concerned about knowledge and scholarship? @drjehrlich.bsky.social joins Past Imperfect to explain, painting a historical canvas which stretches from Warren Hastings to the first rumblings for mass education in the early 19th century: scroll.in/article/1091...
Podcast: The East India Company and the politics of knowledge
In his recent book, Joshua Ehrlich presents a rich portrait of how scholars and scholarship played explicit political roles during the Company Raj.
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My interview with @dinyarpatel.bsky.social for the Past Imperfect podcast is now up: www.spjimr.org/podcast/past...
Macau/HK friends: come see @amitav.bsky.social this weekend at the Macau Literary Festival, in a talk moderated by me.
If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI... I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.
Dr. Ann Blair - How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books
YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center
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Happy to see The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge on the Mittal Institute's winter reading list: mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2025/12/wint...
Winter Reading Recommendations • The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
As the days grow colder this winter season, it’s the perfect time to settle in with a great read. Explore our latest reading recommendations—there’s something here for every kind of reader. We hope th...
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Join us in Macau for this global history conference: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
International Academic Conference “Global History from Macau, China” | H-Net
As a crucial nexus of interaction between East and West, Macau holds a distinctive position in the long process of globalization. Exploring Macau’s connections with countries and regions across the wo...
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My afterword for a special journal issue on Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Towards global histories of cosmopolitanism
The afterword addresses a tension in the concept of cosmopolitanism between its European origins and its global purview. It identifies, with the help of the foregoing essays, four frameworks that s...
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I review Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India by Nicholas Hoover Wilson for JAS @asianstudies.org doi.org/10.1215/0021...
Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India
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Now online: A review symposium on The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (@CambridgeUP) @HEIjournal. Featuring essays by Jessica Patterson, Nandini Chatterjee, Simon Mills, Jessica Ratcliff, and Sujit Sivasundaram. Links to follow... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SNWVF...
Towards Histories of Ideas of Knowledge: A Reply
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Out soon: this collected volume @historytoday.com, featuring my essay on EIC nabobs and the Enlightenment www.historytoday.com/british-empi...
The British Empire from History Today
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8/8 This issue ends with a review, second, by @sandipan1992.bsky.social (Presidency University, Kolkata) of "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2023) by @drjehrlich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Shot in the dark: Does anyone have a copy of Barun De's 1961 Oxford dissertation, "Henry Dundas and the Government of India"? (Impossible to find online, with EThOS still down)
My latest article on the conflicting pressures faced by Muslim scholars in reformist circles of the 18th century: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
Toward the Formation of a Waliullahi Public in Eighteenth-Century India: The Trials and Tribulations of Nurullah Budhanwi
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An incisive review of The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (@universitypress.cambridge.org) in @historians.org academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Joshua Ehrlich. The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge.
Joshua Ehrlich’s book The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge offers an original and densely populated intellectual history of the changing wa
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Exciting job: assistant prof in global history of knowledge @lunduniversity lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University
We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.
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Great new article by Robert Travers: "Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings" doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Petitioning, Scandal, and Conspiracy in Early Colonial Calcutta: Rethinking the South Asian Context for the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
Corruption scandals have long been viewed as crucial to the making of the British Empire in India in the late eighteenth century. But histories of these scandals have mainly focused on metropolitan...
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Just received from @cambridgeup.bsky.social this voucher for 20% off the paperback of my book -- please use it!
1/ Last year, Book History printed an article of mine riddled with 30+ mistakes. The editors have now issued an errata slip acknowledging most of these: muse.jhu.edu/article/959460
Project MUSE - <i>Errata for Joshua Ehrlich</i>, Subscription Publishing and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Indian Print Culture (from issue 27.1)
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1/9 A thread on our recent special issue (10.2), "New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones [1746-1794]", guested edited by @drjehrlich.bsky.social (Macau) & Ian Stewart (@ucl.ac.uk) who underscore its importance & themes in their introduction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
4/9 @drjehrlich.bsky.social (Macau) contributes with a piece on "William Jones and the Politics of Knowledge" which, among other things, briefly traces the willingness of Jones to adapt his scholarship to various political programmes across his career www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Rather, the view from Macau prompts a reassessment of the prospects for British imperial history; it raises different questions from those currently dominant in the field." Read more from @drjehrlich.bsky.social in the third piece in our series. www.nacbs.org/post/the-pro...
The Prospects for British Imperial History: The View from Macau
"Rather, the view from Macau prompts a reassessment of the prospects for British imperial history; it raises different questions from those currently dominant in the field."
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