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‘Power on silt’: towards an archaeology of the East India Company

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher Evans
Christopher Evans*
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Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ
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Special section: London archaeology
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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 244 , September 1990 , pp. 643 - 661
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