British India & British Scotland, 1780-1830
Title: British India & British Scotland, 1780-1830 - Career Building, Empire Building & A Scottish School of Thought on Indian Governance
Author: Martha McLaren
Publisher: The University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio
Date: 2001ISBN: 9781884836732
Hardback - 1st Edition with original dustcover. viii - 306pp. Map. Bibliography. Index.
Synopsis
At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, three Scotsmen, Thomas Munro, John Malcolm and Mountstuart Elphinstone, rose in the service of the East India Company to become respected and influential officials. The author explores connections between their career building ambitions and their development of strategies of Indian governance based on Scottish Enlightenment conceptions of government, religion , law and political economy.
Exploring the interwoven careers of the three men, McLaren presents a new perspective on their use of Indian language skills and Indian Knowledge and articulately written reports to gain promotion.
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