George Campbell (civil servant)

Sir George Campbell, GBR 100% 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 Category:1824 births Category:1892 deaths Category:Lieutenant-governors of Bengal Category:Members of the Council of India Category:Scottish Liberal Party MPs Category:UK MPs 1874–1880 Category:UK MPs 1880–1885 Category:UK MPs 1885–1886 Category:UK MPs 1886–1892 Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fife constituencies Category:Scottish knights Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Category:19th-century Scottish politicians Category:Scottish barristers Category:Scottish civil servants Category:British civil servants in British India Category:19th-century British civil servants Category:Civil servants from British India