He founded Fort William College, a training centre intended for those who would be involved in governing India.
As a writer, Malcolm was a profound influence on the generation of military and diplomatic officials that governed British India in the period before 1857.
A century ago she would have been sent abroad to govern India or Ireland.
It contained the founding principles of the law of the land which would govern India after its independence from British rule.
Only two weeks ago, a coalition of Hindu nationalist parties was given its first opportunity to govern India.
Gandhi had wished to bring in his own team of staff to govern India.
But it is difficult for the Congress Party, which governed India for most of the last half-century, to claim the moral high ground.
A coalition of parties representing different ideological, regional and caste groupings has tried without success to govern India.
This law aimed at constitutional process to govern India.
For the first time, the party is thinking seriously about how it would govern India.