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Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk
Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in
the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts
of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. His
criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led
to his expulsion from India in 1823. In the 1830s he became a
Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms. He founded
several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum. This
illustrated two-volume work, published in 1829 and reprinted here
from its second edition of 1830, recounts Buckingham's journey
through Assyria and Persia en route for India, giving vivid
descriptions of its ancient sites and his views on the modern
inhabitants of the region. In Volume 2 he travels from Shiraz down
to Bushire on the Persian Gulf, a haunt of pirates, before sailing
for Bombay from Muscat.
Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these four pieces by
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) illuminate the concerns of a
broad-minded traveller and the problems of governing an empire. A
newspaperman, social reformer and fierce critic of the East India
Company, Buckingham published the Calcutta Journal until his
expulsion from India in 1823 for attacking vested interests. The
first and second pieces reissued here are his open letters, written
anonymously in 1824, to the MP Sir Charles Forbes regarding press
freedom and the expulsion, without trial, of himself and another
editor. These are followed by an 1830 account of the reception of
his public lecture tour on the East India Company's monopoly, and
an 1853 outline for the future government of India. Together, these
polemical texts provide great insight into contemporary colonial
debates surrounding British rule in India.
Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk
Buckingham (1786 1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in
the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts
of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. His
criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led
to his expulsion from India in 1823. In the 1830s he became a
Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms. He founded
several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum. This
illustrated two-volume work, published in 1829 and reprinted here
from its second edition of 1830, recounts Buckingham's journey
through Assyria and Persia en route for India, giving vivid
descriptions of its ancient sites and his views on the modern
inhabitants of the region. In Volume 1 he starts his narrative at
Baghdad, describing Isfahan and the Achaemenid capital, Persepolis,
before arriving at Shiraz.
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