The Course of Tolerance: Freedom of the Press in Nineteenth-Century America.

Mid-nineteenth century Muslim historical literature, particularly onthe mutiny-rebellion of 1857, presents an interesting contrast, and offersa fascinating study of the state of Muslim mind before and after 1857.This clearly comes out in the writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan(Risalah Asbab-i Baghawat-i Hind,‘ Tarikh Sarkashi Dil ’a Bijnawr,Hunter par Hunter, Loyal Mohammedans of India,), FatehMuhammad Ta’ib (Tarikh-i Ahmadi), Asad Ullah Khan Ghalib(Dastabu in Kulliyat-i Nathr-i Ghalib), Mawlana Altaf Hussain Hali(Hayati-i Jawid), Sayyid Zahiruddin Zahir Dihlawi (Dastan-i Ghadr),Faqir Muhammad (Jam’ al-Tawarikh), Allamah Fadl-i Haq (BughiHindwtan), Mu’inuddin Hassan Khan (“Narrative of Mainodin” inCharles T. Metcalfe’s Two Native Narratives of the Mutiny in Delhi).”Curiously, all of the above writers presented different interpretationsof the revolt of 1857. Indeed this had to be the case. During the revoltIndia lost freedom of the press; known different interpretations of the“mutiny” by natives were tantamout to treason and were visited bycondign punishments. This was particularly true of the Muslims. ManyMuslim newspapers were suppressed and their editors jailed. After the“special” treatment which the Muslims received upon the fall of Delhi,the followers of Islam could not be sure of their destiny in South Asia inthe post mutiny-rebellion period. It was so because the British assignedthe primary responsibility for the revolt to Indian Muslims and rightlyso. The reality of the excessively harsh British treatment of IndianMuslims is beginning to dawn upon the present-day British historians aswell. Professor Peter Hardy in his very recent book, The Muslims ofBritish India, observes: ...

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THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN JAMES MILL'S POLITICAL THOUGHT

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x16000224 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 60 (2) ◽

pp. 363-383 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

KRIS GRINT

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Political Thought ◽

Freedom Of The Press ◽

Jeremy Bentham ◽

Political Climate ◽

Central Importance ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Commonplace Books ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Press

ABSTRACTThis article examines the Scottish philosopher and historian James Mill's views on the freedom of the press, predominantly as they are expounded in his unpublished commonplace books, and argues that not only were these ideas very radical, they were critical to Mill's wider political thought and, by extension, to that of the early Philosophic Radicals. By virtue of the use of manuscript material, this article also presents evidence for various intellectual influences upon Mill, and argues that whilst Jeremy Bentham is of central importance to Mill's ideas, he takes inspiration from a wide range of other authors, both modern and ancient, in part as a way of normalizing his views in the context of the reactionary and conservative political climate that he was writing about them in: early nineteenth-century Britain.

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Anti-Establishment Healing: Spiritualism in Britain

Studies in Church History ◽

10.1017/s0424208400009396 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 225-248

Author(s):

Logie Barrow

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Freedom Of The Press ◽

Lower Middle Class ◽

Ecclesiastical History ◽

Lecture Series ◽

The People ◽

The Press ◽

Public Debates ◽

Individual Effort

Most of the people discussed in this paper would have been amazed at being drawn into a publication chiefly concerned with ecclesiastical history. Some would undoubtedly have treated the words as a rag of very great redness. To elucidate the incongruity, I will briefly summarise who these people were, and when they lived.The period is roughly 1850-1910; the people are those whom I define as plebeian autodidacts. By plebeian I mean, inclusively, anyone from lower-middle-class downwards. By autodidact, I mean anyone who makes their education their own affair, independently of social superiors. In the nineteenth century at least, self-education was seldom a matter of individual effort alone, but also of collective endeavour: comprising agitations for freedom of the press and of assembly, and the defence or exercise of such rights once gained; public readings, scientific demonstrations, lecture-series and, not least, marathon public debates. Thus we have to speak of a plebeian autodidact culture. It was not, of course, the culture of the majority of members of those classes I have lumped together as plebeians. Had it been, we could use the glibber word ‘popular’.

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Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America

10.1017/cbo9781139149402 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Peter H. Argersinger

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Nineteenth Century America ◽

Late Nineteenth

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