Two Letters to Sir Charles Forbes - And Other Short Writings on East India Company Freedom of Press

Klappentext Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these four pieces by James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) illuminate contemporary colonial debates. Zusammenfassung The author James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855) published the Calcutta Journal until his expulsion in 1823 for his criticisms of the East India Company. Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these four pieces illuminate the contemporary colonial debates surrounding press freedom and the future of British rule in India. Inhaltsverzeichnis A letter to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart. MP on the suppression of public discussion in India, and the banishment, without trial, of two British editors from that country, by the Acting Governor-General, Mr. Adam (1824); A second letter to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart. MP on the suppression of public discussion in India, and the banishment, without trial, of two British editors from that country, by the Acting Governor-General, Mr. Adam (1824); History of the public proceedings on the question of the East India monopoly, during the last year, with an outline of Mr. Buckingham's extempore descriptions of the Oriental world (1830); Plan for the future government of India (1853).

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• Authors: James Silk Buckingham, Buckingham James Silk
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2012
• EAN: 9781108046459
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04645-9
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General