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title = "J.H. Whitley and the Royal Commission on Labour in India 1929-31",
abstract = "This chapter explores John Henry Whitley's relationship to India, and what the Royal Commission did in India, including what its recommendations were. Whitley's socially concerned Liberalism and approach to industrial relations made him ideal to examine the social causes of imperial precariousness in India. Whitley and the Commission witnessed the most impoverished conditions in India and their report sought to implement measures that would improve the conditions. Whitley's scrapbook, comprising photographs, news clippings and various other memorabilia, makes evident the element of Orientalist tourism for Whitley and the other British members of the Commission. Visiting Indian factories, villages and workers' homes allowed them an opportunity to relish the strange, 'other' way of life of the Indian people. Whitley can be conceptualised as a man of his time, a liberal imperialist. He fulfilled a role needed to maintain the colonial rule of India.",
keywords = "J.H. Whitley, Royal Commission, India 1929–31",
author = "Amerdeep Panesar and Amy Stoddart and James Turner and Paul Ward and Sarah Wells",
note = "Check author affiliations when published [JC; 26/10/17]",
year = "2017",
month = oct,
day = "26",
doi = "10.4324/9781315231792-9",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138293984",
series = "Routledge Studies in Modern British History",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "129--142",
editor = "Hargreaves, {John A.} and Keith Laybourn and Richard Toye",
booktitle = "Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}