The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India April 1883

We understand that the movement has the sympathand approval of His Excellency the Viceroy and the Governor of *Bombay made the following encouraging remarks at the late Annual Meeting of the Grant Medical College :— The question to which our attention is directed last is a question which has derived much importance from the discussions that have taken place in this and other countries with r [...] It is therefore proposed to establish Scholaships of £50 a year for five years to cover the expenses of the medical curriculum at the London School of Medicine for - Women and the Royal Free Hospital and of the diplomas of one of the Examining Boards open to women. [...] The wise statesmanship of such as Sir Salar Jung the good rule of such as the Begum of Bhopal the scholarship in their own and English fields of letters amongst an ever increasing number of Hindus the new spheres they are everywhere opening for themselves as instanced monthly in the pages of this Journal; and perhaps most marked sign of all the part beginning to be taken in social reform by [...] at the expense of High Education ; but on the contrary the higher education deserves the fullest care and attention even though it may be at the expense of the former because it is the secret of the future welfare of India. [...] There is no doubt that the High Education is the surest means of leading people to find out one day the key-note of the prosperity of the country which is co-operation and the accumulation of capital for starting business which will in their turn create the necessity and the desire for Primary Education.