The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India May 1884

Lord William Bentinck's successor as not to preclude teaching being given through the medium of the vernacular languages of the country ; but from that time for the next twenty years the main object of the educational efforts of the State in India was the high education of the few through the medium of English rather than the elementary education of the masses through the medium of the vernac [...] On the other hand by the educated natives generally and also by some of the officials of the Education Department it was viewed with dissatisfaction and apprehension as indicaing an intention on the part of the Government to abolish the State Colleges in deference to the representations of the managers and supporters of Missionary institutions and without much reference to the efficiency o [...] The object was not so much to divert or turn away the efforts of the Government from the education of the higher classes as to render the action of the Government more comprehesive and while maintaining and in fact expanding the high education of the few to make at the same time adequate pr:vision for the elementary edimation of the more numerous classes of the population. [...] The importance of developing primary education the extension of the granin-aid system and the policy of offering to native gentlemen every encouragement to aid more extensively than heretofore in the establishment of colleges and schools upon that system; the questions of fees and scholarships ; the quality and character of the instruction imparted in secondary schools ; the arrangements exis [...] The notices of the numerous places of interest visited are brief but graphic ; but naturally the major portion of the book is devoted to descriptions of the various systems of land tenure the state of agriculture and of the cultivators in various parts of tile country.