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
- 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
The book concludes by examining reformers’ visions for political integration between metropole and colony, which required both the Indianization of the exclusive Indian Civil Service and parliamentary representation for taxed Indian subjects. These proposals, however, generated conflict within the East India Association and exposed fractures between the radical agitators and the retired officials who had begun to swamp the organization. Gesturing to the afterlife of India reformism, the epilogue further identifies the factors that led to the decay of East India Association’s intra-imperial network and offers a reexamination of the 1908 sedition trial of Indian nationalist B. G. Tilak in which the accused copiously referenced reformist polemic to legitimize his agitation.
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- Ethical Empire?India Reformism and the Critique of Colonial Misgovernment, pp. 1 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023