MILL, James.

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Autograph letter signed, to Jeremy Bentham. An unpublished letter from James Mill to Jeremy Bentham arranges a meeting with the reformer Ram Mohun Roy (1772-1833), often regarded as a founder of modern India. Writing from East India House, Mill notes that he is to dine with Major Carnac and meet Roy there - "who comes mainly to meet me" - and therefore need not trouble Bentham for an introduction that evening. He expresses his wish nonetheless to meet Roy again "in company with you, when you can find a time that will be convenient".The letter links two central figures of utilitarianism: Bentham, its founder, and Mill, its chief systematizer and organiser. Mill's collaboration with Bentham, beginning in 1807-08, became the defining intellectual alliance of his life. Mill edited and shaped much of Bentham's work, mobilized his followers, and, as Halévy observed, "Bentham gave Mill a doctrine, and Mill gave Bentham a school".Mill's correspondent, Ram Mohun Roy, was a leading voice of the Bengal Renaissance. A social and religious reformer, he challenged entrenched Hindu practices while promoting Vedantic ethics as a counterweight to Western cultural dominance. His works advanced the Bengali language and introduced Indian readers to the political ideas of the French and American revolutions. In 1829 he travelled to England as the unofficial representative of the Mughal court, was warmly received by Unitarians and by William IV, and remained in Britain until his death at Bristol i

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