Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Ideas in Context)
C. A. Bayly
Language: English
Pages: 404
ISBN: 1107601479
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One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' liberals influenced, but were also rejected by their opponents and successors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism. Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers - Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx - were received and transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of their own traditions to demand justice, racial equality and political representation. In doing so, Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on the nature and limitations of European political thought and re-examines the origins of Indian democracy.
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Money, they could buy what they wanted from elsewhere’.23 This argument was a direct anticipation of Amartya Sen’s thesis. The real problem, Naoroji thought, was not drought but the impoverishment of the country, which was not in Britain’s interest either. Australia, with a tiny population of four million, bought annually �20 million of British goods, while India, with 150 million, bought a mere �25 million, despite the existence of some protective tariffs.24 Secondly, Naoroji had begun to.
Forbade society’s intervention in the individual’s freedom to impose public morality, unless his or her behaviour harmed others. The classic case here in both Britain and America was the issue of temperance. Mill agreed that habitual drunkenness might debar people from the proper discharge of their family and other responsibilities, and might therefore harm others. But intervention could not be on the grounds that drunkenness by others is an invasion of what Mill called my ‘social rights’. He.
‘liberal and beneficent government’. Despite this apparently loyalist reference to British rule in India, Ameer Ali nevertheless went on to denounce ‘racial pride’ – the tactless treatment of ‘barbarians’ and exclusion of local people from office – which had from time to time brought the Saracens low. Worst of all was Christian crusading zeal, which he called ‘an epidemical frenzy’.76 Here he cited the British constitutional historian, Henry Hallam. The crusades had been directed against a more.
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Ceylon’, Oriental Herald (Oct.–Dec. 1825), p. 229. 86 The domestic British dimension of these debates is examined in Miles Taylor, ‘Joseph Hume and the reformation of India, 1819–33’, in Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein, English radicalism, 1550–1850 (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 285–308. 87 ‘Petitions by native residents’, Fort William Judicial consultations, 14 Dec. 1830, Boards Collections F4/ 1541, 61227, British Library. 88 Oriental Herald (Oct.–Dec. 1825), p. 239. 89 ‘Joseph Hume on.