Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Hinduism
- Abbreviations
- Map of India
- Introduction
- 1 A Christian Company?
- 2 The East India Company, Britain and India 1770–1790
- 3 The 1790s: A Time of Crisis
- 4 The Pillar of Fire Moves Forward: The Advent of British Missionaries 1793–1806
- 5 The Wisdom of the Serpent and the Innocence of the Dove: The Vellore Mutiny and the Pamphlet War 1806–1808
- 6 Troubled Years 1807–1812
- 7 Battle Lines Drawn: Missions, Dissent and the Establishment
- 8 The 1813 Renewal of the Company's Charter: The Religious Public Takes on the Company
- 9 A Turbulent Frontier: The Company and Religion 1814–1828
- 10 A New Dawn? The Era of Lord William Bentinck 1828–1835
- 11 Between Scylla and Charibdis 1836–1858
- Conclusion and Epilogue: Strangers in the Land
- Appendix 1 Presidents of the Board of Control
- Appendix 2 Governors-General and Governors of Madras and Bombay
- Appendix 3 Aide Memoire to Names
- Appendix 4 ‘The Pious Clause’
- Bibliography
- Index
- WORLDS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
6 - Troubled Years 1807–1812
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Hinduism
- Abbreviations
- Map of India
- Introduction
- 1 A Christian Company?
- 2 The East India Company, Britain and India 1770–1790
- 3 The 1790s: A Time of Crisis
- 4 The Pillar of Fire Moves Forward: The Advent of British Missionaries 1793–1806
- 5 The Wisdom of the Serpent and the Innocence of the Dove: The Vellore Mutiny and the Pamphlet War 1806–1808
- 6 Troubled Years 1807–1812
- 7 Battle Lines Drawn: Missions, Dissent and the Establishment
- 8 The 1813 Renewal of the Company's Charter: The Religious Public Takes on the Company
- 9 A Turbulent Frontier: The Company and Religion 1814–1828
- 10 A New Dawn? The Era of Lord William Bentinck 1828–1835
- 11 Between Scylla and Charibdis 1836–1858
- Conclusion and Epilogue: Strangers in the Land
- Appendix 1 Presidents of the Board of Control
- Appendix 2 Governors-General and Governors of Madras and Bombay
- Appendix 3 Aide Memoire to Names
- Appendix 4 ‘The Pious Clause’
- Bibliography
- Index
- WORLDS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
Summary
Now we are likely to get stations fixed with the public permission of Government & we (like toads) shall be tolerated, and not hunted down like wild beasts.
(William Ward)The Persian Pamphlet Controversy
THE FEARS expressed by Grant and Parry that missionaries in India might be restricted further materialised within months of the arrival of Lord Minto, the new Governor-General (appointed July 1806). Minto told George Tierney, who had recently given up the presidency of the Board of Control, that he believed that a primary cause of the Vellore mutiny had been the spreading of rumours that the British were trying to convert India. By September 1807 Minto had come to the conclusion that there was no danger. Nevertheless, he felt that ‘the only successful engine of sedition in any part of India must be that of persuading the people that our Government entertains hostile and systematic designs against their religion’ and that therefore there was some danger by ‘the indiscretion of the well-meaning … but very mischievous zeal of the European missionaries’. Given this opinion, it was not surprising to find Minto precipitated into action when he received a complaint that the Baptist press had printed a pamphlet abusive of the prophet Muhammad.
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- The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858 , pp. 90 - 109Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012