Anna Winterbottom 
Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World [PDF ebook] 

Introduction: Patronage and the Politics of Knowledge, 1660-1720
1. Curious Collectors and Infamous Interlopers: Samuel Baron and the EIC settlements in Southeast and East Asia
2. Linguistic Landscapes: Early English studies of Malay
3. Toleration and Translation: English versions of two Hindu texts from Bengal
4. Botanical and Medical Networks: Madras through the collections of two EIC surgeons
5. Bio-prospecting and Experimenting: Producing and Using An Historical Relation of Ceylon
6. Transportation and Transplantation: Slave Knowledge and Company Plantations

Anna Winterbottom is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK. She is co-editor of The East India Company and the Natural World and has published several journal articles and book chapters on topics related to the history of science and medicine, the Indian Ocean region, and colonial history.