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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (22093)	8/15/2001 9:48:54 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Considering that the only modern administration was that bequeathed by the departing power, whether there were one or several native tongues probably didn't matter, the tendency would be for those educated into the colonial system to take over administration, and, at least initially, use the language in which they had been instructed, since it already was adapted to their needs. I know that the Raj ruled through native princes as much as possible, and that there was some reciprocal influence. I am not sure that is so much a matter of racism as the sheer fact that the level of civilization in India was higher than that in much of Africa or among the aborigines, and therefore it was easier to form alliances. In the same vein, considering that India was already substantially ruled by the East India Company at the end of the 18th century, whereas many African colonies were not acquired until the latter half of the 19th century, differences in treatment might have something to do with the difference in introducing British forms of instruction into the different territories, preparatory to taking native elites at Eton. Whatever the dynastic politics, there were about half a million persons of German, Dutch, and Irish, and other descent at the time of the first census, out of a population of about 2.5 million. Of course, they were concentrated in various states, but it is interesting that the Englishness of the Americans was diluted by about a fifth, perhaps a sixth if you count the Scottish as British.......