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  • 5 - Education and the Persistence of the 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 169-197

  • Summary

    In the 1820s–30s, the question of “native education” generated sprawling debates involving all three Company presidencies. At issue now was not whether the Company could or should secure extensive territory but instead whether, having done so, it could or should govern it. Throughout the period, officials debated the balance to be struck in education policy between conciliation and mass education. This question was briefly conflated with issues of language, leading to the so-called Anglicist-Orientalist controversy. For a fleeting moment in the 1830s, English education appeared to have prevailed. The more lasting impact of the controversy, however, was the end of conciliation and the triumph of mass education in Company ideology.

  • 5 - A new society?

  • P. J. Marshall, King's College London
  • Book:
    Bengal: The British Bridgehead
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    31 March 1988, pp 137-179

  • Summary

    Contemporary British opinion believed that the establishment of a powerful and enduring regime that was capable of imposing order on its subjects was in itself an important agent of change. The peasant could now till his land and the artisan pursue his craft with a security that was entirely new. British administration, however, felt itself unable to conduct detailed 'scientific' surveys and to make minute inquiries into the capacity of cultivators to pay. In the early years of British rule, the most striking shifts in the social contours of Bengal took place in the high hills. Within a few years it was generally conceded that the East India Company's measures aimed at protecting the interests of ryots had been ineffective. With the arrival of Lord William Bentinck as Governor General in 1828, there seemed to be a western intellectual in authority who was willing to engage in dialogue with the more accessible intellectuals among his subjects.