Hardwick, Joseph. (2011) Vestry politics and the emergence of a reform ‘public’ in Calcutta, 1813-36. Historical Research, Vol.84 (No.223). pp. 87-108. ISSN 0950-3471

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Abstract

This article deals with a moment in the eighteen-twenties when, it has been argued, British expatriates and middle-class Indians in Calcutta came together to form a multi-ethnic reform public. It is often assumed that this public emerged as a result of the introduction of press censorship in 1823. This article, by contrast, argues that the origins of the reform movement should be traced to the unlikely surroundings of the vestry of one of Calcutta's Anglican churches. The article gives us a new perspective on India's 'age of reform', and shows how municipal reform, often considered to be a metropolitan phenomenon, not only surfaced in the colonial world but also prepared the ground for later campaigns for free trade, judicial reform and a representative legislature.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title:	Historical Research
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN:	0950-3471
Date:	February 2011
Volume:	Vol.84
Number:	No.223
Page Range:	pp. 87-108
Identification Number:	10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00542.x
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/41600

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