British India and British Scotland, 1780-1830: Career-Building, Empire-Building, and a Scottish School of Thought on Indian Governance

This book is about three eminent Scotsmen, Thomas Munro 1761-1827, John Malcolm 1769-1833, and Mountstuart Elphinstone 1779-1859. All three men were raised in Scotland between the 1760s and 1790s—-the period notable in intellectual history as the golden age of the scotish Enlightenment—-and employed in India between 1780 and 1830, the period notable in imperial history for the remarkable process by which a company of British merchants became the rulers of an Indian empire. Their careers and t…