Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these four pieces by James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) illuminate the concerns of a broad-minded traveller and the problems of governing an empire. A newspaperman, social reformer and fierce critic of the East India Company, Buckingham published the Calcutta Journal until his expulsion from India in 1823 for attacking vested interests. The first and second pieces reissued here are his open letters, written anonymously in 1824, to the M.P. Sir Charles Forbes regarding press freedom and the expulsion, without trial, of himself and another editor....
Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these four pieces by James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) illuminate the concerns of a broad-minded traveller...
