Abstract
“What then was to be looked for in a remote and extensive empire, administered in all its parts by men, who came out boys, without the plenitude of instruction of English youth in learning, morals, or religion; and who were let loose on their arrival amidst native licentiousness, and educated amidst conflicting superstitions?”This complaint was made in 1805 by Claudius Buchanan, in the first influential evangelical tract on India. It was directed against the way of life of the servants of the East India Company in the second half of the 18th century. If certain assumptions are altered, Buchanan's complaint could be changed into praise: these men were not completely indoctrinated by narrow European, English and Christian values, but arrived with a remarkable openness towards what they found in the East, ready to accept different values and customs and to adopt a new style of life. What they were lacking was not so much education as indoctrination.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Arts and Humanities,Cultural Studies
Reference43 articles.
1. Lewis (see n. 44) p. 139. Cf. ib. p. 141.
2. George Beechey and his Indian Wife;Cotton;Bengal, Past and Present,1922
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