India in the 19 century encapsulates a very different and contesting Scottish dimension to the expansion of British Empire. The Scottish legacy in the field of British colonial enterprise has been blurred over the time. Scotland, which was once a colony of the English, was incorporated in the Great Britain in the Union Act of 1707. But distinction between Scottish and English was never made. Thus, in the field of literature we do not find distinct Scottish identity of the contributors likeWalter Scott, R. L. Stevenson, Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyleto name a few. They are placed in the ‘English literature’ without due emphasis on Scottish background and influence. Similarly, the common notion of the British imperial enterprise has masked the contribution of the Scottish administrators working under the British. Now, in the context of India when we talk about ‘Scottish Orientalism’, we need to focus on the already blurred identity of being ‘Scottish’ in the dominant English field. The Union Act (1707) between England and Scotland produced a space for the Scottish people to participate in the British imperial enterprise. This paper focuses to unmask the role of some of the Scottish scholar-administrators working under the British for a distinctively Scottish contribution to the expansion of the British imperial activities that helps to explore the nature of the intellectual and religious engagement. The study offers a distinctive Scottish Orientalist school as Scottish participation of empire remains open ended and it argues for a complex assessment of Scottish individuals who though shared some philological and philosophical interests and assumptions, nevertheless diverged in many other respects.

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谈判苏格兰的“独特性”（？）：揭开英国征服和 19 世纪印度次大陆帝国建设的面纱

19 世纪的印度在大英帝国的扩张中包含了一个非常不同且充满争议的苏格兰维度。随着时间的推移，英国殖民企业领域的苏格兰遗产已经变得模糊。苏格兰曾经是英国的殖民地，在 1707 年的联合法案中并入了英国。但从未对苏格兰和英国作出区分。因此，在文学领域，我们找不到像沃尔特·斯科特、RL 史蒂文森、亚当·斯密、托马斯·卡莱托等贡献者的明显苏格兰身份。它们被放在“英国文学”中，而没有适当强调苏格兰的背景和影响。同样，英国帝国企业的共同概念掩盖了在英国工作的苏格兰行政人员的贡献。现在，在印度语境中，当我们谈论“苏格兰东方主义”时，我们需要关注在占主导地位的英语领域中已经模糊的“苏格兰人”身份。英格兰和苏格兰之间的联合法案 (1707) 为苏格兰人民参与英国帝国事业创造了空间。本文重点揭示一些在英国统治下工作的苏格兰学者行政人员的作用，他们对英国帝国活动的扩张做出了独特的苏格兰贡献，有助于探索知识和宗教参与的性质。该研究提供了一个独特的苏格兰东方学派，因为苏格兰对帝国的参与仍然是开放的，它主张对虽然共享一些语言学和哲学兴趣和假设的苏格兰个人进行复杂的评估，