01734nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000150007604100130009108400120010410000170011624500820013326000530021530000140026852010230028265000750130565000440138065000810142465000230150520250530120247.0250418b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781009321068  aSDCLcSDCL  2engaeng  aV2'N R4  aLeonard, Zak  aEthical empire? :bIndia reformism and the critique of colonial misgovernment  aNew Delhi : bCambridge University Press,c2024.  aix, 292p.  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.  aAnti-imperialist movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century  aBritish India Society (London, England)  aEast India Association (London, England) -- India -- History -- 19th century  aEast India Company