🔆 Colonial Knowledge: Knowledge as an Instrument of Colonial Rule
📍 Why did the British study India?
🟢 Colonial conquest was achieved not only through superior arms, military organisation, political power and economic wealth, but also through “cultural technologies of rule”, as noted by Nicholas Dirks. Knowledge of Indian laws, customs, languages, society and geography helped the colonial state understand, classify and govern India more effectively.
📍 Warren Hastings and Colonial Knowledge
🟢 Warren Hastings wanted to end the Dual Government system under Robert Clive and lay the foundation of territorial rule in Bengal. However, he was not in favour of introducing English laws and ways in India. He preferred to rule the “conquered in their own way” by reconciling British rule with native Indian institutions.
🟢 Greater knowledge of Indian manners, customs, laws and literature would make British rule more acceptable to Indians and help keep revolts away.
📍 Asiatic Society of Bengal
🟢 Established by William Jones in 1784, the Society aimed to systematically study and unearth knowledge about Asia. Its journal was Asiatick Researches.
🟢 William Jones acquired mastery over Sanskrit language and literature. He authored A Digest of Hindu Law on Contract and Succession, which was translated into English and published after his death by Henry Thomas Colebrook in 1796.
🟢 Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagavad Gita.
🟢 Henry T. Colebrook, a renowned Orientalist and successor to Jones, was appointed Professor of Sanskrit at Fort William in 1800. He studied the Vedas, placed them chronologically before the Puranas and outlined the existence of a monotheistic tradition in ancient India.
📍 Codification of Hindu Laws
🟢 Hastings’ judicial reforms revealed differing interpretations of local laws by Brahman Pandits based on different schools of Dharmashastra.
🟢 To bring uniformity, 11 Pandits compiled a digest of Hindu laws, which N.B. Halhed translated into English as A Code of Gentoo Laws.
🟢 A Code of Gentoo Laws and A Digest of Hindu Law on Contract and Succession emerged as authoritative texts on Hindu law, with the Company government bearing the cost of their compilation and publication.
📍 Survey and Mapping
🟢 The office of the Surveyor General of Bengal was established under Warren Hastings, and James Rennell became its first Surveyor General in 1764.
🟢 Rennell produced the Map of Hindoostan, the first authoritative mapping exercise of India. Sepoys and British Army officials were engaged in the survey and mapping process.
📍 Administrators-cum-Scholars
🟢 Fort William College contributed to the emergence of administrators-cum-scholars, who applied their knowledge of India to colonial administration and induced significant changes in Indian society.
📍 Conclusion
🟢 Thus, colonial knowledge was not merely academic. The systematic study of India’s laws, texts, languages, customs and geography became an important instrument for administering, controlling and legitimising colonial rule.
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📍 Why did the British study India?
🟢 Colonial conquest was achieved not only through superior arms, military organisation, political power and economic wealth, but also through “cultural technologies of rule”, as noted by Nicholas Dirks. Knowledge of Indian laws, customs, languages, society and geography helped the colonial state understand, classify and govern India more effectively.
📍 Warren Hastings and Colonial Knowledge
🟢 Warren Hastings wanted to end the Dual Government system under Robert Clive and lay the foundation of territorial rule in Bengal. However, he was not in favour of introducing English laws and ways in India. He preferred to rule the “conquered in their own way” by reconciling British rule with native Indian institutions.
🟢 Greater knowledge of Indian manners, customs, laws and literature would make British rule more acceptable to Indians and help keep revolts away.
📍 Asiatic Society of Bengal
🟢 Established by William Jones in 1784, the Society aimed to systematically study and unearth knowledge about Asia. Its journal was Asiatick Researches.
🟢 William Jones acquired mastery over Sanskrit language and literature. He authored A Digest of Hindu Law on Contract and Succession, which was translated into English and published after his death by Henry Thomas Colebrook in 1796.
🟢 Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagavad Gita.
🟢 Henry T. Colebrook, a renowned Orientalist and successor to Jones, was appointed Professor of Sanskrit at Fort William in 1800. He studied the Vedas, placed them chronologically before the Puranas and outlined the existence of a monotheistic tradition in ancient India.
📍 Codification of Hindu Laws
🟢 Hastings’ judicial reforms revealed differing interpretations of local laws by Brahman Pandits based on different schools of Dharmashastra.
🟢 To bring uniformity, 11 Pandits compiled a digest of Hindu laws, which N.B. Halhed translated into English as A Code of Gentoo Laws.
🟢 A Code of Gentoo Laws and A Digest of Hindu Law on Contract and Succession emerged as authoritative texts on Hindu law, with the Company government bearing the cost of their compilation and publication.
📍 Survey and Mapping
🟢 The office of the Surveyor General of Bengal was established under Warren Hastings, and James Rennell became its first Surveyor General in 1764.
🟢 Rennell produced the Map of Hindoostan, the first authoritative mapping exercise of India. Sepoys and British Army officials were engaged in the survey and mapping process.
📍 Administrators-cum-Scholars
🟢 Fort William College contributed to the emergence of administrators-cum-scholars, who applied their knowledge of India to colonial administration and induced significant changes in Indian society.
📍 Conclusion
🟢 Thus, colonial knowledge was not merely academic. The systematic study of India’s laws, texts, languages, customs and geography became an important instrument for administering, controlling and legitimising colonial rule.
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🔆 SEBI’s IT Resilience Index (ITRI)
📍 Why in News?
🟢 SEBI has introduced the IT Resilience Index (ITRI) for Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs).
📍 What is ITRI?
🟢 A quantitative regulatory scorecard to assess the technological resilience of critical capital-market infrastructure.
🟢 Measures cybersecurity, fault tolerance, reliability and disaster-recovery capabilities.
🟢 Similar to how capital adequacy ratios assess financial health in banking, ITRI measures digital resilience in capital markets.
📍 Key Features
🟢 Uses a 9-parameter weighted framework to quantitatively benchmark IT resilience.
🟢 Availability – 20% and Cybersecurity – 20% are the major parameters.
🟢 Business Continuity – 10% and Reliability – 10% assess recovery capabilities.
🟢 Scalability – 5% evaluates the ability to handle sudden transaction-volume surges.
🟢 Requires an automated Early Warning System (EWS) to detect performance degradation, latency spikes and hardware stress.
📍 Objective
🟢 Ensure trading, clearing, settlement and depository systems can withstand, absorb and recover from cyberattacks, software failures, operational shocks and transaction surges.
📍 Significance
🟢 Shifts regulation from static compliance to measurable digital resilience.
🟢 Helps prevent failures at exchanges and depositories from creating systemic financial disruptions.
🟢 Complements SEBI’s technology roadmap covering AI/ML, SupTech/RegTech and quantum-safe cryptography.
🎯 Prelims Pointers
🟢 Regulator: SEBI
🟢 Index: IT Resilience Index (ITRI)
🟢 Coverage: Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs)
🟢 Highest weights: Availability & Cybersecurity — 20% each
🟢 Early Warning System: Mandatory
#Economy
📍 Why in News?
🟢 SEBI has introduced the IT Resilience Index (ITRI) for Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs).
📍 What is ITRI?
🟢 A quantitative regulatory scorecard to assess the technological resilience of critical capital-market infrastructure.
🟢 Measures cybersecurity, fault tolerance, reliability and disaster-recovery capabilities.
🟢 Similar to how capital adequacy ratios assess financial health in banking, ITRI measures digital resilience in capital markets.
📍 Key Features
🟢 Uses a 9-parameter weighted framework to quantitatively benchmark IT resilience.
🟢 Availability – 20% and Cybersecurity – 20% are the major parameters.
🟢 Business Continuity – 10% and Reliability – 10% assess recovery capabilities.
🟢 Scalability – 5% evaluates the ability to handle sudden transaction-volume surges.
🟢 Requires an automated Early Warning System (EWS) to detect performance degradation, latency spikes and hardware stress.
📍 Objective
🟢 Ensure trading, clearing, settlement and depository systems can withstand, absorb and recover from cyberattacks, software failures, operational shocks and transaction surges.
📍 Significance
🟢 Shifts regulation from static compliance to measurable digital resilience.
🟢 Helps prevent failures at exchanges and depositories from creating systemic financial disruptions.
🟢 Complements SEBI’s technology roadmap covering AI/ML, SupTech/RegTech and quantum-safe cryptography.
🎯 Prelims Pointers
🟢 Regulator: SEBI
🟢 Index: IT Resilience Index (ITRI)
🟢 Coverage: Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs)
🟢 Highest weights: Availability & Cybersecurity — 20% each
🟢 Early Warning System: Mandatory
#Economy
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🔆 EXERCISE SUPER GARUDA SHIELD 2026
🔹Context:
• The 5th edition of Super Garuda Shield (SGS) 2026, a major multinational military exercise, is being conducted in Indonesia from 31 August to 11 September 2026.
🔹 About the Exercise:
• Type: Multilateral military exercise
• Host: Indonesia
• Key partners: Indonesia & United States
• 2026 edition: 5th Super Garuda Shield
• Participants: 21 countries
• Personnel: Around 4,743 multinational troops
• India: Participating country
• Japan: Participating; Japan first joined in 2022 and is participating for the 5th time in 2026.
🔹 Major Components:
• Staff Exercise (Staffex)
• Cyber Exercise (Cyberex)
• Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief (HADR)
• Field Training Exercise (FTX)
• Airborne operations
• Air operations
• Special Operations Forces
• Naval & Marine operations
• Land combat
• Joint land-strike operations
• Medical evacuation (Medevac)
🔹 Humanitarian Dimension:
• Humanitarian Civic Activities (HCA) include:
• ENCAP: School renovation + road improvement
• MEDCAP: General medical treatment for 500 people
• Mass circumcision for 50 children
• Distribution of 1,000 food/essential-goods packages
🔹 Significance for India / UPSC:
• Strengthens India–Indonesia defence cooperation.
• Enhances interoperability with Indo-Pacific partner militaries.
• Supports India's defence diplomacy and engagement with ASEAN/Indo-Pacific.
• Builds capabilities for joint operations, HADR, cyber warfare and military readiness.
• Relevant to India's broader vision of a free, open and stable Indo-Pacific.
🔹Context:
• The 5th edition of Super Garuda Shield (SGS) 2026, a major multinational military exercise, is being conducted in Indonesia from 31 August to 11 September 2026.
🔹 About the Exercise:
• Type: Multilateral military exercise
• Host: Indonesia
• Key partners: Indonesia & United States
• 2026 edition: 5th Super Garuda Shield
• Participants: 21 countries
• Personnel: Around 4,743 multinational troops
• India: Participating country
• Japan: Participating; Japan first joined in 2022 and is participating for the 5th time in 2026.
🔹 Major Components:
• Staff Exercise (Staffex)
• Cyber Exercise (Cyberex)
• Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief (HADR)
• Field Training Exercise (FTX)
• Airborne operations
• Air operations
• Special Operations Forces
• Naval & Marine operations
• Land combat
• Joint land-strike operations
• Medical evacuation (Medevac)
🔹 Humanitarian Dimension:
• Humanitarian Civic Activities (HCA) include:
• ENCAP: School renovation + road improvement
• MEDCAP: General medical treatment for 500 people
• Mass circumcision for 50 children
• Distribution of 1,000 food/essential-goods packages
🔹 Significance for India / UPSC:
• Strengthens India–Indonesia defence cooperation.
• Enhances interoperability with Indo-Pacific partner militaries.
• Supports India's defence diplomacy and engagement with ASEAN/Indo-Pacific.
• Builds capabilities for joint operations, HADR, cyber warfare and military readiness.
• Relevant to India's broader vision of a free, open and stable Indo-Pacific.
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Bringing together 11 major emerging markets and developing countries, BRICS provides a platform for consultation and cooperation on global and regional issues, including political and economic governance.
Its growing membership reflects the changing balance of global influence.
The Numbers Behind BRICS’ Growing Power
BRICS by numbers: the bloc’s global economic weight is significant.
Its 11 member nations represent 49.5% of the world’s population, 40% of global GDP and 26% of global trade , underscoring its growing importance in the global economic landscape.
Its growing membership reflects the changing balance of global influence.
The Numbers Behind BRICS’ Growing Power
BRICS by numbers: the bloc’s global economic weight is significant.
Its 11 member nations represent 49.5% of the world’s population, 40% of global GDP and 26% of global trade , underscoring its growing importance in the global economic landscape.
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🔆 ONE LINERS – 02 SEPTEMBER 2026
📍 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & ISSUES
🔆 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) Meeting
🟢 Venue: Two-day meeting held in Asheville, USA, under the US Presidency.
🟢 India’s focus: Needs of emerging economies, sustainable growth, trade and investment.
🟢 Agenda: Global economic growth, financial stability, rising debt and reforms of the international financial system.
🟢 Issues: Russia’s participation caused disagreements; US raised concerns over China’s trade surplus.
🟢 Significance: Reflects India’s growing role in shaping global economic policies; G20 Leaders’ Summit scheduled in Miami.
🔆 Dialogue Partner Status – GCAP 6th-Generation Fighter Jet
🟢 India joins the UK–Japan–Italy Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) as a “Dialogue Partner”.
🟢 India is not a buyer or developer; it will access discussions on the sixth-generation fighter aircraft, TEMPEST.
🟢 Benefit: Insight into advanced combat-air technologies while India develops its own AMCA (5th-generation) fighter.
🟢 GCAP: Funded with USD 6.1 billion; aircraft targeted for entry into service by 2034.
🟢 Context: India is also exploring the France-led Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
🟢 Significance: Positions India in the global sixth-generation fighter ecosystem.
🔆 SCO Summit 2026 – Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
🟢 26th SCO Summit held from 31 August–1 September 2026 at Yrys Ordo, Bishkek, under Kyrgyz chairmanship.
🟢 Theme: “25 Years of the SCO: Together Towards Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity.”
🟢 Members: 10 states – India, China, Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Belarus.
🟢 Agenda: Regional security, counter-terrorism, organised crime, cyber threats, trade, connectivity, energy security and sustainable development.
🟢 Highlights: Draft Bishkek Declaration, proposal for an SCO Energy Consortium and discussions on an SCO Development Bank.
🟢 Coincided with the SCO’s 25th anniversary and opening of the 6th World Nomad Games.
🟢 Significance: Strengthens Eurasian cooperation, multilateral engagement and people-to-people ties.
📍 ECONOMY
🔆 Veligonda Irrigation Project
🟢 Andhra Pradesh CM inaugurated the first phase and dedicated the project to the nation.
🟢 Scope: Diverts Krishna River water from Srisailam Reservoir to Nallamala Sagar through a gravity and canal network.
🟢 Phase I: Twin tunnels of 18.8 km and a 21.8-km feeder canal.
🟢 Benefits: Drinking water, irrigation and relief to around 4 lakh people.
🟢 Storage: 10.70 TMC; addresses drought in the Markapuram region.
🟢 Future: Second phase targeted for completion by 2028.
🔆 UPI Payments in Uzbekistan
🟢 NPCI International partnered with Uzbekistan’s National Interbank Processing Centre.
🟢 Indian travellers can scan UZQR codes for instant merchant payments across retail, hospitality and services.
🟢 HUMO is the authorised partner; approvals came from the RBI and Central Bank of Uzbekistan.
🟢 Enables direct person-to-merchant (P2M) payments from Indian bank accounts, reducing dependence on cards, cash and forex markups.
🟢 UPI is now accepted in 10 countries: Singapore, UAE, France, Mauritius, Nepal, Bhutan, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Greece.
🔆 Chennai Rain Futures Contract – NCDEX
🟢 NCDEX launches a rainfall-based weather derivatives futures contract for Chennai.
🟢 Purpose: Hedge financial risks linked to the Northeast Monsoon.
🟢 Feature: A rainfall index serves as the benchmark.
🟢 Significance: First-of-its-kind contract, strengthening weather-linked financial instruments in India.
🟢 Impact: Helps farmers, traders and businesses manage monsoon-related financial risks.
📍 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
🔆 National Conference on Quantum Biotechnology
🟢 Held at IIT Bombay, hosted by the QMet Tech Foundation.
🟢 Focused on applying quantum science to diagnostics, biomedical imaging, drug discovery and precision medicine under the National Quantum Mission.
🟢 Key areas included quantum for biology, biosensors, lab-to-industry innovation and biosensing.
🟢 Significance: Strengthens India’s collaborative quantum ecosystem and positions quantum-enabled life sciences as a key frontier.
🔆 Türkiye – 71st Artemis Accords Signatory
🟢 Türkiye officially joins the US-led Artemis Accords as the 71st signatory.
🟢 Framework: Promotes safe, transparent and peaceful exploration of the Moon, Mars and deep space, based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
🟢 Commitments: Scientific data sharing, astronaut assistance, interoperability and protection of historic sites.
🟢 Türkiye’s ambitions: Developing its first lunar mission AYAP-1 and hosting the International Astronautical Congress in Antalya.
🟢 Milestones:Alper Gezeravcı became Türkiye’s first astronaut on the ISS in 2024; Tuva Atasever flew on Virgin Galactic 07.
🟢 Regional context: Türkiye is the seventh West Asian signatory, after UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan and Israel.
🟢 Significance: Strengthens the global Artemis coalition for long-term lunar presence and future Mars missions.
#CurrentAffairs
📍 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & ISSUES
🔆 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) Meeting
🟢 Venue: Two-day meeting held in Asheville, USA, under the US Presidency.
🟢 India’s focus: Needs of emerging economies, sustainable growth, trade and investment.
🟢 Agenda: Global economic growth, financial stability, rising debt and reforms of the international financial system.
🟢 Issues: Russia’s participation caused disagreements; US raised concerns over China’s trade surplus.
🟢 Significance: Reflects India’s growing role in shaping global economic policies; G20 Leaders’ Summit scheduled in Miami.
🔆 Dialogue Partner Status – GCAP 6th-Generation Fighter Jet
🟢 India joins the UK–Japan–Italy Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) as a “Dialogue Partner”.
🟢 India is not a buyer or developer; it will access discussions on the sixth-generation fighter aircraft, TEMPEST.
🟢 Benefit: Insight into advanced combat-air technologies while India develops its own AMCA (5th-generation) fighter.
🟢 GCAP: Funded with USD 6.1 billion; aircraft targeted for entry into service by 2034.
🟢 Context: India is also exploring the France-led Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
🟢 Significance: Positions India in the global sixth-generation fighter ecosystem.
🔆 SCO Summit 2026 – Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
🟢 26th SCO Summit held from 31 August–1 September 2026 at Yrys Ordo, Bishkek, under Kyrgyz chairmanship.
🟢 Theme: “25 Years of the SCO: Together Towards Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity.”
🟢 Members: 10 states – India, China, Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Belarus.
🟢 Agenda: Regional security, counter-terrorism, organised crime, cyber threats, trade, connectivity, energy security and sustainable development.
🟢 Highlights: Draft Bishkek Declaration, proposal for an SCO Energy Consortium and discussions on an SCO Development Bank.
🟢 Coincided with the SCO’s 25th anniversary and opening of the 6th World Nomad Games.
🟢 Significance: Strengthens Eurasian cooperation, multilateral engagement and people-to-people ties.
📍 ECONOMY
🔆 Veligonda Irrigation Project
🟢 Andhra Pradesh CM inaugurated the first phase and dedicated the project to the nation.
🟢 Scope: Diverts Krishna River water from Srisailam Reservoir to Nallamala Sagar through a gravity and canal network.
🟢 Phase I: Twin tunnels of 18.8 km and a 21.8-km feeder canal.
🟢 Benefits: Drinking water, irrigation and relief to around 4 lakh people.
🟢 Storage: 10.70 TMC; addresses drought in the Markapuram region.
🟢 Future: Second phase targeted for completion by 2028.
🔆 UPI Payments in Uzbekistan
🟢 NPCI International partnered with Uzbekistan’s National Interbank Processing Centre.
🟢 Indian travellers can scan UZQR codes for instant merchant payments across retail, hospitality and services.
🟢 HUMO is the authorised partner; approvals came from the RBI and Central Bank of Uzbekistan.
🟢 Enables direct person-to-merchant (P2M) payments from Indian bank accounts, reducing dependence on cards, cash and forex markups.
🟢 UPI is now accepted in 10 countries: Singapore, UAE, France, Mauritius, Nepal, Bhutan, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Greece.
🔆 Chennai Rain Futures Contract – NCDEX
🟢 NCDEX launches a rainfall-based weather derivatives futures contract for Chennai.
🟢 Purpose: Hedge financial risks linked to the Northeast Monsoon.
🟢 Feature: A rainfall index serves as the benchmark.
🟢 Significance: First-of-its-kind contract, strengthening weather-linked financial instruments in India.
🟢 Impact: Helps farmers, traders and businesses manage monsoon-related financial risks.
📍 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
🔆 National Conference on Quantum Biotechnology
🟢 Held at IIT Bombay, hosted by the QMet Tech Foundation.
🟢 Focused on applying quantum science to diagnostics, biomedical imaging, drug discovery and precision medicine under the National Quantum Mission.
🟢 Key areas included quantum for biology, biosensors, lab-to-industry innovation and biosensing.
🟢 Significance: Strengthens India’s collaborative quantum ecosystem and positions quantum-enabled life sciences as a key frontier.
🔆 Türkiye – 71st Artemis Accords Signatory
🟢 Türkiye officially joins the US-led Artemis Accords as the 71st signatory.
🟢 Framework: Promotes safe, transparent and peaceful exploration of the Moon, Mars and deep space, based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
🟢 Commitments: Scientific data sharing, astronaut assistance, interoperability and protection of historic sites.
🟢 Türkiye’s ambitions: Developing its first lunar mission AYAP-1 and hosting the International Astronautical Congress in Antalya.
🟢 Milestones:Alper Gezeravcı became Türkiye’s first astronaut on the ISS in 2024; Tuva Atasever flew on Virgin Galactic 07.
🟢 Regional context: Türkiye is the seventh West Asian signatory, after UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan and Israel.
🟢 Significance: Strengthens the global Artemis coalition for long-term lunar presence and future Mars missions.
#CurrentAffairs
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