Title: Edmund Burke and India : political morality and empire /
Authors: Whelan, Frederick G., 1947-
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, Views on India.; Burke, Edmund, Views on political ethics.; Burke, Edmund,; Political ethics India.; India Politics and government; Great Britain Colonies South Asia Administration History.
Abstract: Edmund Burke and India is the first thorough treatment of Burke's views on India, even though the affairs of the British Indian empire occupied more of Burke's attention - and occupy more space among his writings and speeches - than any of the other causes to which he devoted himself during his long public career. Relating Burke's views on India to ideas expressed in his other writings, Whelan offers a comprehensive assessment of Burke's political theory as a whole. Burke appears here as one of the few classic political thinkers in the Western canon to have made a serious and sustained effort to understand a non-European society and culture.