12 Ultimately, for Mill, barbarism in India, while certainly the deep-seated cause of centuries of stagnation, was not a permanent condition. Rather, the indolent, mendacious, and superstitious character of the natives was the long-term product of political despotism and religious tyranny. The moral character of the natives as a product of circumstance and social conditioning was, in principle, amenable to transformation, most significantly through political and legal reform. While for Mill the engine for moral reform was good government, for evangelicals like Charles Grant it required a more radical change in manners. Grant served with the EIC for twenty-two years, from?1768 to?1790, eventually becoming Chairman of the Board of Proprietors. Grant was a key member of the Clapham Sect with close ties to William Wilberforce; he was the crucial figure who turned evangelical energies to the cause of missionization and social reform in India. Like Mill's History, Grant's Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain grounded the project of reform upon the rejection of Orientalist and Enlightenment histories of India. pull lacoste pas cher [14] [14] Charles Grant, Observations on the State of Society among...suiteHere Hindu manners and religion were salaciously portrayed as mired in deep superstition and moral degradation.[15] [15] 'In short, a Hindoo, from the hour of his birth, through... vanessa bruno pas cher suiteThe source of corruption, and thus the proposed terrain of reform, was religion. Good laws and upright administration in themselves would guarantee little, for Grant, if underlying manners fostered venality and indolence. 'The true cure of darkness, is the introduction of light',[16] [16] Ibid. , p. ?149. .. cabas vanessa bruno pas cher .suitewhich for Grant, in the absence of full-scale state support for missionary activity, would be sought through the expansion of education, particularly English education.[17] [17] See Syed Mahmood, A History of English Education in India,...suite13 'The key task for maintaining British rule in India was to determine the grand moral and political principle, by which we shall henceforth, and in all future generations, govern and deal with our Asiatic subjects: Whether we shall make it our duty to impart to them knowledge, light, and happiness; or under the notion of holding them more quietly in subjection, shall seek to keep them ignorant, corrupt, and mutually injurious, as they are now?'[18] [18] Ibid
[14] [14] Charles Grant, Observations on the State of Society among...suiteHere Hindu manners and religion were salaciously portrayed as mired in deep superstition and moral degradation.[15] [15] 'In short, a Hindoo, from the hour of his birth, through... vanessa bruno pas cher suiteThe source of corruption, and thus the proposed terrain of reform, was religion. Good laws and upright administration in themselves would guarantee little, for Grant, if underlying manners fostered venality and indolence. 'The true cure of darkness, is the introduction of light',[16] [16] Ibid. , p. ?149. .. cabas vanessa bruno pas cher
.suitewhich for Grant, in the absence of full-scale state support for missionary activity, would be sought through the expansion of education, particularly English education.[17] [17] See Syed Mahmood, A History of English Education in India,...suite13 'The key task for maintaining British rule in India was to determine the grand moral and political principle, by which we shall henceforth, and in all future generations, govern and deal with our Asiatic subjects: Whether we shall make it our duty to impart to them knowledge, light, and happiness; or under the notion of holding them more quietly in subjection, shall seek to keep them ignorant, corrupt, and mutually injurious, as they are now?'[18] [18] Ibid