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IRELAND, INDIA AND THE EMPIRE: 1780–1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2002

C.A. Bayly
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Abstract

ROY Foster remarks in Paddy and Mr Punchthat a nodding acquaintance with Irish history, which one of his English commentators claimed to have, is ‘the most dangerous type of acquaintance.’ My own growing alarm at attempting to reinvent the wheel for the purpose of this conference has been allayed only slightly by reading a remark of John Stuart Mill: ‘Those Englishmen who know something about India, are even now those who understand Ireland best.

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Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 10 , December 2000 , pp. 377 - 397
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society2000

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References

1 John Stuart Mill,England and Ireland(London, 1868), p. 22, cited in S.B. Cook,Imperial Affinities. Nineteenth century analogies and exchanges between India and Ireland(Delhi, 1993), p. 53.