IAFS 1000
British Expansioninto South Asia
Announcements• Map/plagiarism quiz retake Wednesday
audio test
Outline
• South Asia today
• Foundations of the East India Company
– Role of force
– Taxation
– Indirect Rule
• Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education
Hindu-Muslim Tension
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Political Turmoil in Pakistan
General
Musharraf
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English in India
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India in theEighteenthCentury
East India Company (EIC) Foundations
• Focus on economic integration
--e.g. with Mughal empire
• Private company
--not state institution
• Use of force avoided
--preference for collaboration
18th Century Changes
• EIC territorial conquests
—1757: Plassey
(in Bengal)
—1803: Delhi
• EIC taxation
• Shift in social hierarchies
• Indirect rule (e.g. princely states)http://history.howstuffworks.com/asian-history/history-of-india.htm/printable
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Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education (1835)
“I have never found one among them [Orientalists] who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India & Arabia.”
Macaulay’s Minute (cont.)
“We must . . . form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.”
Themes
• Preference not to use force (although the threat of violence always lurked in the background)
• Reliance on collaboration