This study centers upon the abolitionists, Quakers, free-traders, disenchanted colonial agents, and Parsi intellectuals who participated in the British India Society, India Reform Society, and East India Association. Beginning in the 1830s, these agitators increasingly recognized that British domini...

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1. Verfasser:	Leonard, Zak 1988- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023
Schlagworte:	British India Society (London, England) East India Association (London, England) East India Company Anti-imperialist movements / India / History / 19th century Anti-imperialist movements / Great Britain / History / 19th century East Indian diaspora India / History / British occupation, 1765-1947 Great Britain / Colonies / Administration / History / 19th century
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Zusammenfassung:	This study centers upon the abolitionists, Quakers, free-traders, disenchanted colonial agents, and Parsi intellectuals who participated in the British India Society, India Reform Society, and East India Association. Beginning in the 1830s, these agitators increasingly recognized that British dominion in India was exploitative and destabilizing; moreover, it had given rise to a series of prejudicial anomalies. Reformers therefore denounced the 'virtual' enslavement, infrastructural decay, violations of the law of nations, and economic impoverishment that had occurred under colonial rule, as well as the metropole's inattention to Indian affairs. By reconstructing the transregional networks that extended from Boston to Bengal and sustained these organizations, Zak Leonard analyzes India reformism from ideological and structural perspectives. In so doing, he historicizes the practice of anti-colonial critique and offers new insight into the frustrated development of a British imperial public consciousness
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Oct 2023) The origins of reform : pressure-group rivalries and the conservationist turn -- "A blot on English justice" : India reformism and the rhetoric of virtual slavery -- Public works, publicity, and the search for a new state-idea -- Reformist collaboration and the formation of an imperial civil society -- Anomalous annexations : debating the law of nations and princely sovereignty -- Politicizing decline : reformist remedies for deindustrialization -- Radical reformism and the challenge of capitalist complacency -- Epilogue : integrating the empire
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 292 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009321044
DOI:	10.1017/9781009321044