Benign Imperialism? - Robb, Peter
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Were colonial rulers in India worse than other governments and if so why? To consider those questions, the first part of Benign Imperialism? examines confidential discussions within the Government of India concerning official misconduct, law, and public benefit, particularly in the Bengal Presidency in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Officials debated the purpose and methods of British rule, how to punish civil servants' misconduct, the relationship between executive and High Court, and the importance of public opinion in India (and Britain). The book also considers these…mehr

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Were colonial rulers in India worse than other governments and if so why? To consider those questions, the first part of Benign Imperialism? examines confidential discussions within the Government of India concerning official misconduct, law, and public benefit, particularly in the Bengal Presidency in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Officials debated the purpose and methods of British rule, how to punish civil servants' misconduct, the relationship between executive and High Court, and the importance of public opinion in India (and Britain). The book also considers these issues by referring to court cases and some British Parliamentary Papers. Part two turns to policies and local administration, revealing shortcomings including poor focus and police corruption. It assesses the basis of government understandings and describes conditions of village life and the local experience of British rule. The last two chapters look at examples of policies reacting to need and intended to be beneficial, with the longest discussion being about rural irrigation.
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Peter Robb, FRAS, FRHistS, is Professor Emeritus at SOAS University of London. His first degrees were at the Victoria University of Wellington and his doctorate was from London. He has written or edited numerous books on South Asia, most recently Useful Friendship (2014); Ideas Matter (2020); and Agrarian Development in a Colonial Society: The British and Bihar (2021). He is currently working on a fourth book to draw on the voluminous diaries of Richard Blechynden. It is to be called On Time: European Encounters with India in Early Calcutta.