Bhownaggree: The Life and Times of an Indian Tory

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Featuring John McLeod - Professor, University of Louisville

Join us for a webinar panel discussing the newly published volume of Bhownaggree: The Life and Times of an Indian Tory (University Press of Kentucky) which explores Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree’s "Indian Toryism" by examining his support for the British Empire juxtaposed with his efforts to support the Indian people. He 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.

Discussants:
Dinyar Patel - Associate Professor, The S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India
Miles Taylor - Professor, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Moderator: 
Anirvan Chowdhury - Assistant Professor, University of Louisville

This event is part of the "Book Launch Webinar Series on Asia" sponsored by the Calvin & Helen Lang Endowed Chair in Asian Studies and the Asian Studies Program at the University of Louisville.