?218. ...suite14 The foundations of British rule thus ought to be a policy of assimilation, where Indian society would be reshaped along the lines of British society. For Grant, a policy of assimilation, especially in producing a native class fluent in English and English manners, would build 'uniting principles', lasting ties between Britons and Indians that inculcated a native interest in the maintenance of British rule.15 In orienting the imperial project toward future improvement Mill and Grant also rendered the foundations of Empire ethical in a specific sense. femme lacoste pas cher The reformist argument for the justness of Empire was premised upon a simultaneous disavowal of conquest and force as legitimate sources of imperial authority. This link between the morality of Empire and the critique of conquest was elaborated in their portrayals of early EIC rule, which was consistently denounced as sheer criminality. In his account of the Hastings trial and its indictment of the EIC, for example, Mill aligned himself unambiguously with Burke.[19] [19] See especially volume?3 of J. Mill, The History of British... sac vanessa bruno gris pas cher suiteGrant pleaded for a new moral framework for imperial rule 'in compensation of the evils which the establishment of our power had introduced among them'.[20] [20] C. Grant, Observations on the State of Society, op. cit. ,... lacoste soldes suiteThe fulfilment of the British debt owed to the inhabitants of India would be made through the radical reform of native society. This was explicitly conceived as a moral duty to rectify and absolve oneself of the crimes of conquest.[21] [21] See also A. ?T. ?Embree, Charles Grant and British Rule...
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The reformist argument for the justness of Empire was premised upon a simultaneous disavowal of conquest and force as legitimate sources of imperial authority. This link between the morality of Empire and the critique of conquest was elaborated in their portrayals of early EIC rule, which was consistently denounced as sheer criminality. In his account of the Hastings trial and its indictment of the EIC, for example, Mill aligned himself unambiguously with Burke.[19] [19] See especially volume?3 of J. Mill, The History of British... sac vanessa bruno gris pas cher suiteGrant pleaded for a new moral framework for imperial rule 'in compensation of the evils which the establishment of our power had introduced among them'.[20] [20] C. Grant, Observations on the State of Society, op. cit. ,... lacoste soldes
suiteThe fulfilment of the British debt owed to the inhabitants of India would be made through the radical reform of native society. This was explicitly conceived as a moral duty to rectify and absolve oneself of the crimes of conquest.[21] [21] See also A. ?T. ?Embree, Charles Grant and British Rule...