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In the years between the Indian Mutiny and Independence in 1947 the
Indian Civil Service was the most powerful body of officials in the
English-speaking world. 300,000,000 Indians, a sixth of the human
race, were ruled by 1000 Civilians. With Whitehall 8000 miles away
and the peasantry content with their decisions, they had the
freedom to translate ideas into action. Anglo-lndian Attitudes
explores the use they made of their power by examining the beliefs
of two middle ranking Civilians. It shows, in great detail, how
they put into practice values which they acquired from their
parents, their teachers and contemporary currents of opinion.
F.L. Brayne and Sir Malcolm Darling reflected the two faces of
British imperialism: the urge to assimilate and the desire for
rapprochement. Brayne, a born-again Evangelical, despised Indian
culture, thought individual Indians were sunk in sin and dedicated
his career to making his peasant subjects industrious and thrifty.
Darling, a cultivated humanist, despised his compatriots and
thought that Indians were sensitive and imaginative.
Brayne and Darling personified two ideologies that pervaded the
I.C.S. and shaped British rule in India. This book, which is based
on two of the richest sets of personal papers left by I.C.S.
officers, is both an important contribution to the history of
British India and a telling commentary on contemporary values at
home.
Tractarians and Evangelicals, the extremists of the
nineteenth-century church, have successfully imposed their
propaganda on posterity. Every text assumes that these militants
saved the Church of England from the slough of complacency and
corruption that their most powerful enemies - 'high and dry'
dignitaries - had created.
This book rehabilitates the bishops and deans who are commonly
supposed to have lavished preferment on unworthy friends and
relations. It shows how members of the Hackney Phalanx, the
high-church equivalent of the Clapham Sect, used their patronage to
co-opt the able and energetic sons of rising business and
professional families: ordinands with the talent and ambition to
make a substantial contribution to the church from families that
might have otherwise been lost to dissent. A single clerical
connection, of nine related clergymen revolving round a mid
nineteenth-century Dean of Canterbury, William Rowe Lyall
(1788-1857), illuminates a number of central features of church and
society: patronage; the co-option of new men; and the attraction of
the church as a professional career.
This exceptionally readable book contains vivid pen-portraits of
Dean Lyall and his clients, rigorous economic analysis of the
financial returns of a clerical career.
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