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Title: | The social and administrative reforms of Lord William Bentinck | ||||||
Author: | Seed, Geoffrey |
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0000 0004 2674 2010
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Awarding Body: | University of St Andrews | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of St Andrews | ||||||
Date of Award: | 1949 | ||||||
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Bentinck's attitude towards his responsibilities as
Govornor-general was conditioned to an important degree
not only by the intellectual outlook he brought with him
to India, but also by an emotional factor which originated
with his dismissal by the Court of Directors from the
Governorship of Madras in 1807.
The son of a Whig politician, the third Duke of Portland,
Bentinck had been in close touch with the political life of
the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. His
outlook was moulded, not by his father, but by the more
imaginative of the Whigs - in particular by Burke and
Charles James Fox, He was acquainted with the modes of
thought inspired by Bentham and Adam Smith, both of whom
could claim him as a disciple. His political sympathies,
therefore, lay with the radicals. He was a doctrinnaire
in the sense that he had a philosophical belief in progress,
and considered the acceleration or initiation of change to
be a primary duty of a statesman
Bentinck was not in any way an originator of now ideas.
His mind, while receptive to the impuluses of a new age, was
not capable of originating or directing any of those impulses,
It may be said of him, in fact, that his outlook was based
more on scepticism towards conventional or traditional
attitudes than on a perception of the spirit of liberalism.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.500599 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | DS475.8S4 ; Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, Lord, 1774-1839 ; India--History--Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 ; British--India | ||||||
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