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India and British Scotland, 1780-1830 Career Building, Empire Building, and a Scottish School of Thought on Indian Governance by Martha McLaren 306 pp., 6 x 9, index International,
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| 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. McLaren
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.
This perspective compels a reexamination of the orthodox representation
of their school of thought as largely pragmatic and conservative.
McLaren's work will further the understanding of British imperialism in
South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
"This [book] holds
significance for scholars of intellectual history in the fields of both
Britain and British colonial India. It shows well how the Scottish
educational system, based on the Scottish Enlightenment, shaped the
thinking and promotion rate of three important officials in the East
India Company throughout their influential careers." "This is a valuable
contribution to the field of British imperialism in South Asia.
Scholars interested in the English-Scottish relations during this
period, especially as they pertain to the empire, will also likely read
this with profit." |
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Martha McLaren is adjunct professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. She specializes in the intellectual history of British colonial South Asia and has written several articles on that subject. She earned her Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. |
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