Bentinck : Lord William (Henry Cavendish) (1774-1839), entered the Army 1791, saw service in Netherlands & Italy: Governor of Madras 1803-07 but held responsible for a mutiny of sepoys against their officers at Vellore, recalled by East India Co.’s Court of Directors: employed in Portugal as Brigadier: Commander-in-Chief in Sicily 1811: served in Spain: led expedition against Genoa 1814: Governor of Bengal from July 1828, C-in-C from May 1833, first Gov.-General of India 1834-35: annexed the Princely State of Mysore: attacked Ranjit Singh of Punjab on the Sutlej: ‘restored financial equilibrium’ in favour of Europeans, ‘reformed land revenue settlement’ in NW Province in favour of the British, ‘reorganised judicial courts’ in favour of Europeans (see Indian Penal Code), devoted funds to education through English medium to increase employment of native jee-huzur clerks in Govt., resulting in the eloquent inscription on his statue in Calcutta written by Macaulay, Legal Member of his Council from 1834. Naturally he greatly regretted his retirement for not being able to bring more prosperity to England; became M.P. for Glasgow in 1837 to help govern the Empire. [Disinfected Buckland]
... British accounts place the figure at 800. This little documented event was the first major rebellion against the emerging British Empire in colonial India. It cost the governor of Madras, Lord William Bentinck his job. At the time of the revolt, the fort - a late 14th-century Vijayanagara construction of European design encased by a crocodiles-infested moat, captured by Shivaji in 1677, and garrisoned ...
... lines as to lose their separate individuality and their sympathy with the mass of the nation. An essential part of this policy which became dominant owing to the strong personalities of Macaulay, Bentinck and others, was to yield certain minor rights to the small educated class, and concede the larger rights as slowly as possible and only in answer to growing pressure. This policy was not undertaken ...
... unselfish England claimed the right of shedding her blood for the safety of the land? What room for the gifts of large initiative, comprehensive foresight, wise aspiration which make the statesman, when a Bentinck or a Mayo, a Dufferin or a Curzon were ready & eager to take & keep the heavy burdens of Government out of the hands of the children of the soil? The princely spirit, the eagle's vision, the lion's ...
... Basanti Devi, 48 Bases of Yoga, 598 Basu, Arabinda, 752 Baudisch, A., 753 Beachcroft, C.P., 325,328,329 Bengalee, The, 34,183, 281, 312, 332, 335, 338 Bentinck, Lord William, 13 Bergson, Henri, 441 Besant, Annie, 266, 272, 412, 521 Bhagavad Gita, The, 6, 84, 156, 192, 285, 289ff, 297, 317, 318, 319, 336, 343, 344, 448, 449 ...
... Government initiative or subsidies. But presently, following current trends and also bowing to the weight of authoritative opinion (Rammohan Roy on the one hand, Macaulay on the other), Lord William Bentinck's Government resolved in 1835 to give official support to "English education alone". This was the real effective beginning of the "new education". The role of Raja Rammohan Roy in this phase ...
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