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Cover of Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Edited by John M. Robson

  • Published: 1981
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415480581
  • Set ISBN: 9780415480581

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Writings on India


of mill’s fourteen published writings on India, eight appeared in anonymous pamphlet form, all in connection with the legislation of 1858 that transferred to the Crown all the affairs of the East India Company. These exist only in the one printed version, except for “The Petition of the East India Company,” which also appeared in Parliamentary Debates. Two other items, “John Stuart Mill, Esq., Is Called in and Examined” (1852), and “Letter from the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Honourable East India Company to the President of the Board of Control” (in connection with the legislation of 1858), were published in Parliamentary Papers.; the latter also appeared in Supplement to Votes, which is the copy-text because a copy of it, corrected by Mill in punctuation, is in his library, Somerville College, Oxford. Three articles appeared in periodicals: “Foreign Dependencies—Trade with India,” in the Parliamentary History and Review (1828); “Penal Code for India,” in the Westminster Review (1838); and “Mr. Maine on Village Communities,” in the Fortnightly Review (1871). The last of these is partly extant in manuscript (Library of Congress) and was republished in the posthumous fourth volume of Mill’s Dissertations and Discussions (1875). There is one manuscript, the “Minute on the Black Act” (1836) in the British Library, deriving (like the pamphlets) from Mill’s employment in the Examiner’s Office of the East India Company.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Martin Moir
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    Textual Introduction By John M. Robson
  • Trade With India 1828
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      Trade with India
  • Minute On The Black Act 1836
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      Minute on the Black Act
  • Penal Code for India 1838
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      Penal Code for India
  • The East India Company’s Charter 1852
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      The East India Company’s Charter
  • The Petition of the East-India Company
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      The Petition of the East-India Company
  • Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years 1858
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
    • Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India during the Last Thirty Years
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        Prelims
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        Revenue Administration, and Rights of the Rural Population
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        Judicature and Legislation
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        Improvement of the Country by Public Works
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        Education
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        Miscellaneous Improvements
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        Appendices
  • Report to the General Court of Proprietors, Drawing Attention to the two Bills Now before Parliament Relating to the Government of India 1858
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      Report to the General Court of Proprietors, Drawing Attention to the Two Bills Now before Parliament Relating to the Government of India
  • A Constitutional View of the India Question 1858
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      A Constitutional View of the India Question
  • Observations on the Proposed Council of India 1858
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      Observations on the Proposed Council of India
  • Practical Observations on the First two of the Proposed Resolutions on the Government of India 1858
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      Practical Observations on the First Two of the Proposed Resolutions on the Government of India
  • The Moral of the India Debate 1858
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      The Moral of the India Debate
  • A President in Council the Best Government for India 1858
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      A President in Council the Best Government for India
  • Letter From the East India Company to the President of the Board of Control 1858
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      Letter from the East India Company to the President of the Board of Control
  • Maine on Village Communities 1871
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      Editors’ Note By John M. Robson; Martin Moir; Zawahir Moir
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      Maine on Village Communities
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