Writings on India : : Volume XXX / / John Stuart Mill; ed. by Martin I. Moir, John Robson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Mill, John Stuart,
• HerausgeberIn: Moir, Martin I.,; Robson, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

John Stuart Mill worked for thirty-five years in the Examiner's Office of the East India Company, first as a junior clerk and finally as head of the Office. His activities there are among the least examined aspects of his career.Mill was somewhat reluctant, because of his official position, to comment publicly on the Company's affairs, but occasionally he put forwards views in essays and before parliamentary committees that alert us to important elements in his thought and career. Further, when in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny a succession of bills was brought forward in parliament to abolish the Companty, Mill was its chief spokesman in a succession of carefully argued pamphlets that reveal even more of his views.This volume offers the first opportunity for a fill assessment of Mill's contribution, including as it does the first reprinting of the essays, parliamentary evidence, and pamphlets, and adding an appendix of an annotated record and location of his despatches.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Textual Introduction -- Trade with India (1828) -- Minute on the Black Act (1836) -- Penal Code for India (1838) -- The East India Company's Charter (1852) -- The Petition of the East-India Company (1858) -- Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the Last Thirty Years (1858) -- Report to the General Court of Proprietors (1858) -- A Constitutional View of the India Question (1858) -- Observations on the Proposed Council of India (1858) -- Practical Observations on the First Two of the Proposed Resolutions on the Government of India (1858) -- The Moral of the India Debate (1858) -- A President in Council the Best Government for India (1858) -- Letter from the East India Company to the President of the Board of Control (1858) -- Maine on Village Communities (1871) -- Appendices -- Index