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The values of utilitarianism prompted the Company administration to attempt reform of Indian society.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Early Structure of the British Raj

By the 1820s and 1830s, Company rule shifted from the cautious Orientalist deference of the Hastings-Cornwallis era toward an interventionist reformism whose intellectual backbone was utilitarianism.

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  • Utilitarianism as the ideology of rational intervention
  • Legal codification: reason imposed on custom
  • Social reform: Sati, thuggee, infanticide
  • Education: the Anglicist victory
  • Administrative centralisation and economic liberalism
  • Critical limits: selective reform, rival causes, and imperial self-interest

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