Radhika Desai wrote:
> Could it be in his History of British India? In it James Mill re-directs his anti-aristocratic temper to the upper castes in India and this the postcolonialists read as being 'anti-indian'.
It could be there. Several sources suggest that the article was
inspired by his work with the East India Company. I suspect that the
quotation was an elaboration by Hobson of his sentiments in the
article:
5: "colonies were planted wholly for the benefit of the Roman aristocracy."
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