Edmund Burke and India
Subtitle: Political Morality and Empire (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780822939276
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Political ideologies; Political science & theory; Political History; Sociology; Reference; India; Emigration & Immigration; Burke, Edmund; Contributions in political ethics; Views on India; 1729-1797; 1765-1947; Burke, Edmund,; Political ethics; Politics and government
Description: 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.