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THE IMPERIALISTIC UTILITARIAN’S BRITISHPOLICY AND INDIAN NATION
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Author(s):
DR. VIKRAM SINGH
Vol - 7, Issue- 10 ,
Page(s) : 70 - 76
(2016 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Abstract
The present paper entitled,“The Imperialistic Utilitarian’sBritish Policy and Indian” focuses onthe English utilitarianism which believed in the maximum of the greater good, extrapolating it in quantifiable terms and impact of British utilitarianism on India. We analyze the several administrative, judicial, educational and social reforms in India through utilitarianism.
- For a description of the changed status of the moneylender under British rule, see M.L. Darling, The Punjab Peasant in Prosperity and Debt, Oxford University Press, London, 1947, p. 178: “For centuries he was nothing but a servile adjunct to the Mohammadan cultivator, who despised him as much for his trade as for his religion. Forbidden to wear a turban and allowed to ride only on a donkey, and often the object of ‘unmentionable indignities’, sufferance was the badge of all his tribe; but when British rule freed him from restraint and armed him with the power of the law, he became as oppressive as he had hitherto been submissive.”
- See particularly R.C. Dutt,The Economic History of India Under Early British Rule, London, 1901.Dutt was a spokesman of landlord interests who argued strongly against ‘excessive’ land taxation. He was one of the early leaders of the nationalist movement whose spurious arguments still unfortunately carry some weight.
- S. Sivasubramonian, National Income of India 1900-1 to 1946-7, Delhi School of Economics, 1965 (mimeographed, but now incorporated in The National Income of India in the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000.
- H. Tinker, India and Pakistan, Pall Mall, London, 1967, p. 172.
- E. Stokes, The English Utilitarians and India, Oxford, 1959, for an analysis of their influence.
- See above, pp. 17–18.
- The English Utilitarians and India, Oxford University Press, London, 1959, PP.30-35.
- Review of C. J. Fox's History of James II in the Annual Review and History of Literature for 1808,vol. VII, pp. 99–101.
- James Mill,History of British India, vol. II, pp. 186–90.
- Monthly Review, Jan. 1813, vol. LXX, p. 23.
- Edinburgh Review, Apr. 1810, vol. XVI; Jul. 1812 and Nov. 1812, vol. XX; Monthly Review,Jan. 1813 and Apr. 1813, vol. LXX; Feb. 1815, vol. LXXVI.
- Edinburgh Review, Apr. 1810; Eclectic Review, Jan. 1814, vol. I, p. 147; and ‘Colony’ in Supplement to Encyclopedia Britannica, as separately reprinted, p. 19.
- Edinburgh Review, Apr. 1810, p. 149.
- Ibid., Jan. 1810, p. 171.
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