'No distinction exists as to religion, profession, or sex': Imperial Reform and the Electoral Culture of the East India Company's Court of Proprietors, 1760–84.

As contemporaries frequently pointed out, and often in disparaging terms, the governing institutions of the British East India Company contained an almost unprecedented 'democratical' element. By this, they were referring to the Company's General Court of Proprietors, its sovereign deliberative body...

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Published in:Parliamentary History Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 129 - 148
Main Author: Gilding, Ben
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2024
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