ABSTRACT
By the 1860s the new journal All the Year Round's stance on India had been radically reconfigured from that of its predecessor, Household Words. The amount of column space given to India certainly did not diminish, but the tone of the articles reverted to that of many of the pre-Mutiny essays. Indeed, in terms of their emphasis on the need to ameliorate conditions for the Indian peasantry there is little to differentiate the writings of the early 1850s from the articles appearing in the 1860s. The latter pieces, however, are informed by an urgent need to invest in the Indian cotton industry to ensure that textile production in areas like Lancaster could be maintained in spite of the war in America. It is for this reason that the majority of post-1859 articles dealing with India do not refer to the revolt, and bear none of the animosity that characterized the pieces written in the uprising's early stages. Depicting a volatile political climate and an insubordinate people would hardly encourage investment from businessmen expecting a sizeable return on their capital.
