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Indian Education

1903

Indian Education, A Monthly Record was published for twenty consecutive years from Bombay and printed at Longmans Green and Company. While there were similar journals of the same name published in the same period, what distinguishes this journal is the subheading, “A Monthly Record”. The SACHA Collection has the entire run except the issues from the last year of publication.

It is an invaluable resource on education in colonial India and also published regular pieces on education in England and parts of South East Asia like Burma. Its popularity can be gauged from the number of advertisements published in the first few pages of the journal in a section titled the “Indian Education Advertiser.” School and college text books that were published in the years 1902-22 were regularly advertised in the journal and one of the interesting advertisements was published under the following heading, “Text Books for Teachers” (November 1920). It included a whole list of publications and was followed up with an advertisement for a tutorial home. The Tutorial Home mentioned a London address and subsequently listed a gamut of agents of the coaching center based in various Indian cities.

The journal published detailed essays on education in the various Indian provinces, with one particular province being in focus every month. Critical commentary highlighting the problems within the educational sector were also published with regularity, essays aimed to offer correctives to academics and administrators alike. Finally, the journal started the practice of paying contributors whose essays were accepted for publication in an attempt to raise the standard of pieces published in its pages. This particular fact often found mention on the cover giving it a distinct identity in comparison to its contemporaries.

Book Reviews and analyses of other contemporary publications finished off a particular issue and Indian Education can very well be considered an early prototype of a twenty-first century journal.

Reasons why the journal ceased publication from 1922 onwards remain unknown, but there is little doubt that it constitutes a valuable resource to better understand education in colonial India.

education
Pages
80
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
525-528 unknown view
Teachers’ Pay: A Comparison
528-530 unknown view
Education in England
530-534 Oxoniensis view
The Teaching of Indian History
535-543 One of the Staff of the Government Training College, Allahabad view
Sanskrit at the Bombay Matriculation Examination
543-546 Vishnu Mahajani view
The Two Currents in the New Educational Movement
546-548 Michael Sadler view
The News of the Month
548-561 unknown view
Public Instruction in the Central Provinces 1901-02
562-563 A. Monro view
Geographical Notes
563-566 William Jesse view
Science Notes
566-568 unknown view
Reviews of Books
568-573 unknown view
Books Received
573-573 unknown view
Our Contemporaries
574-578 unknown view
Government Notifications
578-580 unknown view
Backmatter
i-xiv unknown view

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