Joshua Ehrlich

Actually this session:

Macau/HK friends: come see @amitav.bsky.social this weekend at the Macau Literary Festival, in a talk moderated by me.

Dr. Ann Blair - How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center

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.

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...

Happy to see The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge on the Mittal Institute's winter reading list: mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2025/12/wint...

Join us in Macau for this global history conference: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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...

My afterword for a special journal issue on Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India

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...

Foreword Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Patterson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chatterjee: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mills: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ratcliff: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sivasundaram: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My response: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SNWVF...

Towards Histories of Ideas of Knowledge: A Reply Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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...

The British Empire from History Today

Out soon: this collected volume @historytoday.com, featuring my essay on EIC nabobs and the Enlightenment

www.historytoday.com/british-empi...

The book cover

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)

Toward the Formation of a Waliullahi Public in Eighteenth-Century India: The Trials and Tribulations of Nurullah Budhanwi

My latest article on the conflicting pressures faced by Muslim scholars in reformist circles of the 18th century:

read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...

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

An incisive review of The EIC and the Politics of Knowledge (@universitypress.cambridge.org) in @historians.org academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

@britishlibrary.bsky.social

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.

Exciting job: assistant prof in global history of knowledge @lunduniversity lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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...

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!

2/ For the original article, see zenodo.org/records/1255...

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

A steel engraving of Sir William Jones, after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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....

Detail of the spines of historic works of Jones

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....

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."

"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."

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 East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge Cambridge Core - South Asian History - The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge

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...

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

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!

Time change: now happening at 10am

Robert Travers reviews 'The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge', by Joshua Ehrlich
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @cambridgeup.bsky.social