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028			_a:International Book Distributors _b:Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi _c:112990 _d:30/11/2018
082			_a320.5130941 MEH
100			_a Mehta, Uday Singh
245			_aLiberalism and Empire _b: a study in nineteenth-century British liberal thought _c/Uday Singh Mehta
260			_aChicago _b: University of Chicago Press, _c1999
300			_axii, 237 pages _c; 24 cm
365			_b2379
505			_aIntroduction -- Strategies: liberal conventions and imperial exclusions -- Progress, civilization, and consent -- Liberalism, empire, and territory -- Edmund Burke on the perils of the empire -- Experience and unfamiliarity.
520			_aWe take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward
650			_aSocial Studies
650			_aLiberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
650			_aLiberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
655			_aBritish colonies.
700			_aMehta, Uday Singh
942			_cBOOK
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