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English Free Traders and Indian Tariffs, 1874—96*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Ira Klein
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Indian tariff policies, historians of British India have stressed, illustrated an economic determinism in imperialism, in which Manchester blatantly served its self-interest in generating exploitative policies. Ironically, the influential work of John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson, which indirectly qualified the idea of an imperialism that was solely economically motivated, has helped to produce a new view of British economic exploitation regarding Indian policy.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , May 1971, pp. 251 - 271
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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†Department of History, The American University, Washington, D.C.
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The author wishes to express appreciation to the American Institute of Indian Studies for a fellowship to India, under which the research for this article was completed.

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