Book contents
- Ethical Empire?
- Ethical Empire?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Association Abbreviations and Key Membership
- Introduction
- 1 The Origins of Reform
- 2 “A Blot on English Justice”
- 3 Public Works, Publicity, and the Search for a New State-Idea
- 4 Reformist Collaboration and the Formation of an Imperial Civil Society
- 5 Anomalous Annexations
- 6 Politicizing Decline
- 7 Radical Reformism and the Challenge of Capitalist Complacency
- Epilogue: Integrating the Empire
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The Origins of Reform
Pressure-Group Rivalries and the Conservationist Turn
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2023
- Ethical Empire?
- Ethical Empire?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Association Abbreviations and Key Membership
- Introduction
- 1 The Origins of Reform
- 2 “A Blot on English Justice”
- 3 Public Works, Publicity, and the Search for a New State-Idea
- 4 Reformist Collaboration and the Formation of an Imperial Civil Society
- 5 Anomalous Annexations
- 6 Politicizing Decline
- 7 Radical Reformism and the Challenge of Capitalist Complacency
- Epilogue: Integrating the Empire
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Adopting a sociological perspective, Chapter 1 examines the rise of the professional public moralist and situates early India reformism among concurrent campaigns such as transatlantic abolitionism, free trade, and aboriginal protection. It addresses the reformers’ acquisition of social and symbolic capital, the possibilities for “link-ups” between groups, and the controversies that inhibited cooperation. Agents of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, for instance, clashed with the reformers over their approach to the abolition of indigenous slavery in India and their connections to the heterodox American Garrisonians. Delving into these conflicts demonstrates that early advocates of “conservationist” reform were an embattled lot, contending with the obstructionism of a reactionary Company-state and the derision of detractors within the metropolitan philanthropic community as well.
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- Ethical Empire?India Reformism and the Critique of Colonial Misgovernment, pp. 22 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023