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Article: Lynn Zastoupil, John Stuart Mill and India.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- September 22, 1996
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Lynn Zastoupil, John Stuart Mill and India (Stanford UP, 1994), 280 pp., $39.50 cloth.
Lynn Zastoupil's John Stuart Mill and India results from the kind of research that has long been missing from the substantial work already done on Mill's life and writings--careful and comprehensive reading of the approximately 1,700 dispatches that he wrote for the East India Company in his long career at India House from 1823 to 1858. Through an analysis of these dispatches and related documents in the India House Library and Records, Zastoupil attempts "to reconstruct Mill's India House work and to relate this activity to what is already known of his intellectual life" (4), ...