This volume looks at how India was first acquired by the British and takes the story through to the origins of the Indian National Congress. It deals with the Indian Mutiny and its consequences, and aims to explore how far race and gender influenced the colonial relationship.
This volume looks at how India was first acquired by the British and takes the story through to the origins of the Indian National Congress. It deals ...
John Stuart Mill worked for the East India Company in London for thirty-five years (1823-58), drafting many hundreds of dispatches for the guidance of British administrators in India. Historians have long been aware of Mill's involvement in British Indian government. This comprehensive effort brings together different strands of scholarship on Mill to determine the character of his role based on analyses of his draft despatches and comparisons of their practical and theoretical concerns with the broad themes of Mill's major writings on political philosophy and economics. The essays in this...
John Stuart Mill worked for the East India Company in London for thirty-five years (1823-58), drafting many hundreds of dispatches for the guidance...