The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress in India December 1881

To the women of Brahmins and of Hindus in general they are unknown because the knowledge of them is prohibited and regarded as unbecoming the modesty of the sex and fit only for public dancers ; but among the women of the Rajbundah and some other tribes of the Hindus who seem to have no prejudice of this kind they are generally taught. [...] We promised to return to the consideration of the subject ; and although no further information in regard to the constitution and objects of the proposed Commission has as yet reached England we commence the fulfilment of our pledge tday as we are very sure that the questions involved are of vital importance not only to the popularity but also to the efficiency of our administration to the [...] For instance at least three or four of the leading AnglIndian journals in commenting on the announcement of an impending Educational Commission to examine the working of the educational despatch of 1854 and the proposal (believed not without reason to be implied by the appointment of such a commission) that Government should withdraw from the maitenance of the state colleges speak of t [...] The fact is in every enlightened age and in every civilised country it has been felt to be a point of the highest national importance to encourage the creation of a class of highly educated men ; and since the cost of the highest kind of education if it all had to come out of the pockets of the students would be absolutely prohibitory except to a very few (namely the very rich in whom would o [...] Thirdly the system of Government and general administration of the country being conducted on English principles must for a long time be beyond the comprehension and outside the pale of the sympathies of all but the highly-educated class of Indians ; hence there is the greater need of such a class to interpret between governors and governed and policy enjoins the use of public revenues to cre