01827nam a22002297a 4500 20250530120247.0 250418b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781009321068 SDCL SDCL eng eng V2'N R4 Leonard, Zak 752423 Ethical empire? : India reformism and the critique of colonial misgovernment New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2024. ix, 292p. 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. Anti-imperialist movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century 811152 British India Society (London, England) 811153 East India Association (London, England) -- India -- History -- 19th century 811154 East India Company CC TEXL 0 1309133 1309133 0 0 CC 0 0 SDCL SDCL 2025-04-18 Classic Book Service 171, 11/12/2024, INR 3495.00 0 V2'N R4 SC1690737 2025-04-18 11:56:50 2025-04-18 TEXL