George Campbell (civil servant)

Sir George Campbell, KCSI, DCL (1824 – 18 February 1892) was a Scottish member of the Indian Civil Service, holding a variety of administrative positions, acting as a judge of the High Court, Calcutta, and rising at the end of his career to the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. He was a barrister, and author on Irish and Indian land tenure, and on the government of India. He was a Liberal Party politician and, post-India, for seventeen years member of parliament for Kirkcaldy Burghs.

Quotes

• [Africans] are not the possessors of an old civilization and ancient laws, under which they have learned to manage their own affairs; they are in no degree in the position of the Hindoo and Mahomedan races in India. They are mere barbarians, with some ill-defined customs which we have reduced to law.… African tribes seem to be mere casual aggregations of people under the chief of the day. … I should judge, then, that there is little of native law or rule which we are much called on to respect when these people come under our jurisdiction.
  • India as It May Be: an Outline of a Proposed Government and Policy (London, 1853), pp. xii, xiv–xvi, xxiv–xxv, 9,413; White and Black, op. cit., pp. 111–12, 121–2. in Christine Bolt - Victorian Attitudes to Race-Routledge (2006)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on George Campbell (civil servant) on Wikipedia