HIS 2326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sea Point, Glass Ceiling, Paternalism
24 Jul 2018
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Lecture xiv: experie(cid:374)ce of e(cid:373)pire i(cid:374)dia a(cid:374)d the decli(cid:374)e of the e(cid:373)pire (cid:894)pt. i(cid:895) Imperial paternalism (after the sea point crisis: emergence of indian nationalists and indian nationalism, policies of divide and rule, partition (bengal) and protest (punjab) Once the mutiny had been crushed, subsequent rebellions were increasingly local in context. Inspired by extremist groups: unable to embody a broad sense of social unrest across the subcontinent. By the time victoria had been declared empress of india, british began to rule india through paternalism. Indians began to adopt new and more subtle forms of resistance. Validity of imperial rule and policy was beginning to be challenged. Started in the 1830s-40s: begins to blossom in the 1870s-80s. Employment for indians in the ranks of government were limited: only at the lower levels, education in english was key. Indians recognize limitations of governance: send sons to britain for education, escape the glass ceiling in gov"t.
