Which of the following are the views of the Orientalists in regard to strengthen the hold of British...........

Ancient and Medival History Later Mughals and Advent of Europeans

Which of the following are the views of the Orientalists, in regard to strengthen the hold of British rule in India?

1. Intellectual curiosity and romanticizing of India

2. Need of reform imposed from outside

3. Wanted gradual change via reason

4. Wanted immediate change via force if necessary

Select the correct answer from the following

1 only

1&3 only

1,2&3 only

2,3&4 only

The British devised several strategies to make their rule effective. The early British administrators in India like Warren Hastings, William Jones, Jonathan Duncan and others glorified India’s ancient past (romanticizing of India). These scholars and administrators were called Orientalists.
They thought that a better understanding of Indian languages, literature and culture would make it easier for them to rule India.
The first orientalists were 19th century scholars who translated the writings of the “orient” into English, based on the assumption that a truly effective colonial conquest required knowledge of the conquered peoples. By knowing the orient, the west came to own it. The orient became the studied, the seen, the observed, and the object.
William Jones (1746–1794), the founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, who, with his vast knowledge of Oriental peoples was the undisputed founder of scholarly Orientalism.
Most Orientalists had a kind of dual purpose of improving the quality of life of Indian peoples and advancing arts and knowledge back in the heart of the Empire