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Lancashire, Cotton, and Indian Reform: Conservative Controversies in the 1930s

2004; Oxford University Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/tcbh/15.2.143

1477-4674

Martin Pugh,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

In re-examining the struggle within the Conservative Party over Indian constitutional reform in the face of pressure from Lancashire textile interests, this article argues that the India rebels never really exploited the economic grievances of Lancashire. It emphasizes that Tory MPs could be restrained by their local organizations as much as by pressure at Westminster; and it suggests that the underlying threat to them lay in the championship of cotton textile interests by Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists throughout the 1930s.