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100			_aLeonard, Zak _9752423
245			_aEthical empire? : _bIndia reformism and the critique of colonial misgovernment
260			_aNew Delhi : _bCambridge University Press, _c2024.
300			_aix, 292p.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aAnti-imperialist movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century _9811152
650			_aBritish India Society (London, England) _9811153
650			_aEast India Association (London, England) -- India -- History -- 19th century _9811154
650			_aEast India Company
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