We have measured the cross sections and analyzing powers A y and A yy for the elastic and inelastic scattering of deuterons from the 0 + (g.s.), 2 + (4.44 MeV), 3 − (9.64 MeV), 1 + (12.71 MeV), and 2 − (18.3 MeV) states in 12 C at an incident energy of 270MeV. The data are compared with microscopic distorted-wave impulse approximation calculations where the projectile-nucleon effective interaction is taken from the three-nucleon t-matrix given by rigorous Faddeev calculations presently available at intermediate energies. The agreement between theory and data compares well with that for the (p, p ′ ) reactions at comparable incident energies/nucleon.Light-ion-induced inelastic scattering at bombarding energies above 100 MeV/nucleon is an appealing probe of nuclear structure due to the simple reaction mechanism. In such an energy domain, the reaction proceeds predominantly through a single step, and the distorted-wave impulse approximation (DWIA) gives a reasonable starting point for the theoretical description of data. In the IA for