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Now largely forgotten, Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree was a longtime member of the British parliament who, like many Indian nationalist leaders in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, believed colonial rule could benefit India. But he was also a journalist, lawyer, publicist, and fierce advocate for Indian rights.
Bhownaggree draws on archival research and Bhownaggree's writings and speeches to highlight his work inside and outside of Parliament, offering a revised understanding of the influential politician. Author John McLeod explores Bhownaggree's "Indian Toryism" by examining his support for the British Empire juxtaposed with his efforts to support the Indian people. Bhownagree fought to educate Indian women and girls and to industrialize India, and he denounced racial discrimination and the misuse of Indian tax revenues. He also became a longtime leader of the British Parsi (Indian Zoroastrian) community. McLeod discusses Bhownaggree's role in the administration of a semiautonomous Indian kingdom, his backing of the Allied cause during World War I, and his interactions with political foes who also happened to be personal friends, including Dadabhai Naoroji and Mahatma Gandhi.
This first full-length study of Bhownaggree challenges the assumption that Indian activism consisted of one mind. McLeod demonstrates that many educated Indians shared Bhownaggree's beliefs and mission to affect change through policy, peeling back previously unexamined layers of the movements and cultures of the Indian people during the British Raj.
Contents
Introduction_x000D_
Part One_x000D_
A Parsi in Bombay (1851-1872)_x000D_
An Indian Tory (1872-1882)_x000D_
A New Home? (1882-1886)_x000D_
Politics, Mourning, and the Press (1886-1891)_x000D_
Towards Parliament (1891-1895)_x000D_
Part Two_x000D_
The Maiden Speech (1895)_x000D_
Member for India? (1895-1897)_x000D_
Triumphant (1897-1900)_x000D_
Member for North-East Bethnal Green (1895-1900)_x000D_
The Second Term (1900-1906)_x000D_
Part Three_x000D_
"Their Natural and Just Rights as British Subjects" (1895-1906)_x000D_
"There is no Longer Room for Patience" (1906-1914)_x000D_
Part Four_x000D_
Out of Parliament (1906-1914)_x000D_
A New Empire (1914-1919)_x000D_
A Parsi in London (1891-1933)_x000D_
Acknowledgements_x000D_
The Works of Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree_x000D_
Abbreviations of Archival Sources_x000D_
Selected Bibliography_x000D_
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