Rawlinson, Northcote and the imperialism of information management

Sir Henry Rawlinson, the archaeologist who deciphered the Epic of Gilgamesh and then went on to become involved in the government of India, and Sir Stafford Northcote, secretary of state for India, came to opposing conclusions about the severity of the Russian threat to the subcontinent, and about the direction of British imperial policy more generally. The root of their disagreement lay in how they categorized information in different ways.