Essay On Colonial Bureaucracy

Indian colonial bureaucracy was a classic example of Weber’s bureaucratic model and bore out his warnings. We can see how a middle class is used by the owners of production to manage the proletariat and ensure efficient operation of the capitalist system. They are dependent on the social superstructure of values for their identity and functioning, and therefore are a major site of ideological dissemination and consciousness creation within society. They mediate between those who own the means of production and those who sell their labour. They grew out of the merchant and urban classes of the middle ages. Of course we can see that as feudalism passed into capitalism the ownership of the means of production passed from the feudal lord to the capitalist. Economy went from self sufficient subsistence to expansion and inflation. The pace of change increased and urbanization grew, the family ties loosened as did the traditional status system and ties. This process is based on growing polarization and so contradictions are

To Protestantism, and the growth of a materialist, mercantilist culture and the weakening of the monarchical power in Europe, the growth of ideas of freedom and individuality, and the fact that these ideas survived and grew. Man is independent of the social system he finds himself in, he is a rational being with rights and can through conscious action change society and his place within it. This basic delinking of agency and structure and the subjecting of the social system to rational analysis is the basic germ of modernity. It’s true germ was laid in Greece. But there was no free economic competition between east and west, rather there was political domination, economic restriction and economic protection, special interests and stipulations etc. It was not a fair competition between systems but rather one system’s physical domination over