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  • 4 - Scholar-Officials and the Later Company State

  • Joshua Ehrlich, University of Macau
  • Book:
    The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
    Published online:
    22 June 2023
    Print publication:
    06 July 2023, pp 123-168

  • Summary

    Attempts to alter the balance between the Company’s two characters would only intensify in the decade-and-a-half after Wellesley’s departure (1805–20). Ideas about knowledge would continue to feature in these attempts. The Charter Act of 1813 tied the Company’s patronage of scholars to its collection of land revenue. Scholar-officials and their Indian collaborators, meanwhile, tailored their intellectual projects to the aim of territorial expansion. Overall, such expansion was encouraging engagement with Indian society and raising the prospect of involvement in Indian education. The Court of Directors was slow to embrace this prospect. But by the 1820s, the need for new ideas about knowledge could not be ignored any longer.