<P> The Ilustrados (Spanish for "erudite," "learned," or "enlightened ones") constituted the Filipino educated class during the Spanish colonial period in the late 19th century . </P> <P> They were the middle class who were educated in Spanish and exposed to Spanish liberal and European nationalist ideals . The Ilustrado class was composed of native - born intellectuals and cut across ethnolinguistic and racial lines--Indios, Insulares, and mestizos, among others--and sought reform through "a more equitable arrangement of both political and economic power" under Spanish tutelage . </P>

What was the filipino native elite class of the 1800s called