Charles Edward Trevelyan as an Educational Reformer in India 1827-1838

Hilliker, John

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“…71 Ibid., 72 Ibid., to educate the native learned class in English and rely on them to diffuse their knowledge to the masses. 75 Mill came to diverge from Macaulay's position and lean toward the Orientalist policy that favored education in the languages, literature, and traditions of India. Mill wrote a letter to Horace Wilson, a leading proponent of Orientalist education policy, expressing support for Wilson and dismay at Bentinck's anglicizing policy.…”

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Tolerant Imperialism: John Stuart Mill's Defense of British Rule in India

Tunick¹

2006

Rev Pol

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Some critics of John Stuart Mill understand him to advocate the forced assimilation of people he regards as uncivilized and to defend toleration and the principle of liberty only for civilized people of the West. Examination of Mill's social and political writings and practice while serving the British East India Company shows, instead, that Mill is a tolerant imperialist: Mill defends interference in India to promote the protection of legal rights, respect and toleration for conflicting viewpoints, and a commercial society that can cope with natural threats. He does not think the principle of liberty is waived for the uncivilized or that the West should forcibly reshape them in its own monistic image. Mill's tolerant imperialism reflects a tension between liberty and moral development that also surfaces when Mill thinks about the scope of government in civilized societies.

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Tolerant Imperialism: John Stuart Mill's Defense of British Rule in India

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2006

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“…At the same time, Trevelyan initiated a vigorous campaign in support of the Anglicist cause in the press, in which he publicised his controversial scheme to romanise the Indian vernaculars, and in private correspondence with Bentinck, in which he advocated the establishment of 'our language, our learning, and ultimately our religion in India' (Philips, 1977(Philips, : 1239. Despite the traditional association of Macaulay with the promotion of English in India, the evidence suggests that Trevelyan's single-mindedness, energy and persistence were fundamental to the success of the Anglicist campaign during the 1830s (Hilliker, 1974). Indeed, according to Clive (1973), such was Trevelyan's influence in 1833-1834 that the 'battle' between the Anglicists and Orientalists had largely been 'fought' and 'won' before Macaulay set foot in India.…”

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Macaulay's Minute Revisited: Colonial Language Policy in Nineteenth-century India

Evans¹

2002

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This paper examines a crucial episode in the history of language policy in British colonial education: the Orientalist-Anglicist controversy of the 1830s over the content and medium of government education in India. The bitter dispute over colonial language-in-education policy during this period raised fundamental questions about the roles and status of the English language and the Indian vernacular and classical languages in the diffusion of Western knowledge and ideas on the subcontinent. At the heart of many accounts of the controversy, not least those of a polemical nature, is Thomas Babington Macaulay's famous Minute of 1835, which advocated the creation of a class of anglicised Indians who would serve as cultural intermediariesbetween the British and their Indian subjects. This paper reassesses Macaulay's influence on British language policy in 19th century India. It begins by examining the background to the Orientalist-Anglicist dispute in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and then moves on to analyse the content and purpose of the Minute. The second part examines the short-term and long-term consequences of Macaulay's scheme in India and in other British colonial contexts.

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“…95 As such, it was an experiment along the lines of his earlier promotion of English-language classes at the Delhi College. 96 Both were designed to benefit the bureaucratic service classes of the future rather than the warrior nobles, grand merchants and scholars who had traditionally been conciliated and patronized by the British.…”

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Bad Language: The Role of English, Persian and other Esoteric Tongues in the Dismissal of Sir Edward Colebrooke as Resident of Delhi in 1829

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Brennan

Haines

2001

Mod. Asian Stud.

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In 1829, at the height of Lord William Bentinck's regime of reform, a keen young civil servant in north India took on one of the last of the Company's nabobs and won. It was a clash of a new style of Haileybury civilian with an old Company servant which remarkably prefigured the personal and philosophical dynamics of the Anglicist-Orientalist education debate a few years later. Sir Edward Colebrooke, Bt, was Resident of Delhi, 67 years old and nearly 50 years in the East India Company's service. His youthful adversary was his own first assistant, Charles Edward Trevelyan, aged 22 and, in Sir Edward's words, ‘a Boy just escaped from school’. In June 1829 Trevelyan charged Colebrooke with corruption, and despite being cut by many of Delhi's European residents, saw the prosecution through to its conclusion some six months later when the Governor-General in Council was pleased to order Colebrooke's suspension from the service, a sentence ultimately confirmed by the Court of Directors.

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Charles Edward Trevelyan as an Educational Reformer in India 1827-1838

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Tolerant Imperialism: John Stuart Mill's Defense of British Rule in India

Tolerant Imperialism: John Stuart Mill's Defense of British Rule in India

Macaulay's Minute Revisited: Colonial Language Policy in Nineteenth-century India

Bad Language: The Role of English, Persian and other Esoteric Tongues in the Dismissal of Sir Edward Colebrooke as Resident of Delhi in 1829

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