Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globe
By Sumathi Ramaswamy (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly symbol, a … Continued