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British officials didnt want to abandon their profitable trade for uncertain advantages of government.

1783- Board of control in Britain

Hastings defended that Britain shouldn’t impose its regulations to India which has very different culture.

As Bernard Cohen and Hastings agreed, the laws and codes of early India was corrupted. So, look at the original texts. Also, there existed diffferent rules for Hindu and Muslim. This reduced many different communities to be charactherized as one of the two.

Sanskrit legal scholars (pandits), first translated to Persian and then to English

Siw William Jones studied it and the Orientalist view of making the past avaliable was taken.

Privileged Brahmanical textx over local usages that varied by caste and region and gave Brahmans an unprecendeted role in decision making, “Brahmanization of Indian Law”

Lack of trained British personnel, Cornwallis was very angry that reveneue administration was in the hands Hindu people. Thus, a rule : all highly paid jobs were to be held by European originated people. Racist exclusion in employement.

The “Collector” –collect revenues as well as control the police, and act as a judge. Responsible to British authority but controlled Indians below.

College of Fort William at Calcutta- wehere local languages are taught to civil servants.

These all created “Steel frame of Indian administration”

Efficient military consisted of sepoy (high caste Hındu peasantry) was formed. – some Hindu festivals were recognized to prevent upheveal.

The Indian army expanded during Napolenic Wars.

Asiatic Society of Benghal- studied the religious and cosmological texts of Indian antiquitity under Sir William Jones.

Jones believed that even though in philosophy and literature India has a lot to teach to West, they are not advance in scientific reasoning.

The sympathetic orientalist vision slowly withered over the years.

The Great Trigonometrical Survey aimed to map out...