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/
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Towards Histories of Ideas of Knowledge: A Reply
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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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...
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Featuring essays by Jessica Patterson, Nandini Chatterjee, Simon Mills, Jessica Ratcliff, and Sujit Sivasundaram.
Links to follow...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SNWVF...
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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November 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
My afterword for a special journal issue on Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I review Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India by Nicholas Hoover Wilson for JAS @asianstudies.org
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Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India
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November 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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...
doi.org/10.1215/0021...
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...
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)
www.tandfonline.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
Featuring essays by Jessica Patterson, Nandini Chatterjee, Simon Mills, Jessica Ratcliff, and Sujit Sivasundaram.
Links to follow...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SNWVF...
Out soon: this collected volume @historytoday.com, featuring my essay on EIC nabobs and the Enlightenment
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The British Empire from History Today
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October 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Out soon: this collected volume @historytoday.com, featuring my essay on EIC nabobs and the Enlightenment
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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....
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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)
August 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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)
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My latest article on the conflicting pressures faced by Muslim scholars in reformist circles of the 18th century:
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Toward the Formation of a Waliullahi Public in Eighteenth-Century India: The Trials and Tribulations of Nurullah Budhanwi
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May 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My latest article on the conflicting pressures faced by Muslim scholars in reformist circles of the 18th century:
read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
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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June 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
An incisive review of The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (@universitypress.cambridge.org) in @historians.org academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
June 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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June 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Exciting job: assistant prof in global history of knowledge @lunduniversity lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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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June 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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...
Just received from @cambridgeup.bsky.social this voucher for 20% off the paperback of my book -- please use it!
May 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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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May 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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
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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....
May 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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....
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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....
May 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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....
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"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.
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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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May 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"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...
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A short piece I wrote for @thenacbs.bsky.social on teaching and studying British imperial history in Macau: 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."
www.nacbs.org
May 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A short piece I wrote for @thenacbs.bsky.social on teaching and studying British imperial history in Macau: www.nacbs.org/post/the-pro...
Now out in a much more affordable paperback: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
Cambridge Core - South Asian History - The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
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April 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Now out in a much more affordable paperback: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Just out: an interview I gave about my book, The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge, for the Global Corporations / Law Channel podcast newbooksnetwork.com/the-east-ind...
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023) - New Books Network
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March 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Just out: an interview I gave about my book, The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge, for the Global Corporations / Law Channel podcast newbooksnetwork.com/the-east-ind...
Just out: special issue @global-ih.bsky.social, 'New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones', edited by Ian Stewart and me, with essays by @rkkinra.bsky.social, @asheeshksi.bsky.social, Jessica Patterson, and Kapil Raj (and us) www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/1...
Global Intellectual History
Special issue: New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones. Guest Editors: Joshua Ehrlich and Ian Stewart. Volume 10, Issue 2 of Global Intellectual History
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February 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Just out: special issue @global-ih.bsky.social, 'New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones', edited by Ian Stewart and me, with essays by @rkkinra.bsky.social, @asheeshksi.bsky.social, Jessica Patterson, and Kapil Raj (and us) www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/1...
See you in Chennai on 3 Feb!
January 31, 2025 at 5:13 AM
See you in Chennai on 3 Feb!
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Robert Travers reviews 'The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge', by Joshua Ehrlich
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November 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Robert Travers reviews 'The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge', by Joshua Ehrlich
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It was our AGM last week - and it marked @petermandler.bsky.social's last AGM as Chair!
We want to thank Peter for 23 years of outstanding, committed service to the journal, including as an Editor and as a Chair💙
📸Pictured here with one of our current Editors, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
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We want to thank Peter for 23 years of outstanding, committed service to the journal, including as an Editor and as a Chair💙
📸Pictured here with one of our current Editors, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
🗃️
January 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It was our AGM last week - and it marked @petermandler.bsky.social's last AGM as Chair!
We want to thank Peter for 23 years of outstanding, committed service to the journal, including as an Editor and as a Chair💙
📸Pictured here with one of our current Editors, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
🗃️
We want to thank Peter for 23 years of outstanding, committed service to the journal, including as an Editor and as a Chair💙
📸Pictured here with one of our current Editors, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
🗃️
Delhi-wallahs, come hear me talk about the EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (now out in India) at JNU on the 27th www.jnu.ac.in/node/159897207
ZHCES organises a seminar by Dr. Joshua Ehrlich | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University
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January 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Delhi-wallahs, come hear me talk about the EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (now out in India) at JNU on the 27th www.jnu.ac.in/node/159897207
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Hi Joshua, many thanks for this! We are seeking submissions for Volume I until January 15th at 23:59 IST. We accept articles between 2,000 and 10,000 words from all countries and disciplines.
January 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Hi Joshua, many thanks for this! We are seeking submissions for Volume I until January 15th at 23:59 IST. We accept articles between 2,000 and 10,000 words from all countries and disciplines.