Life and Experiences of a Bengali Chemist

The second principle was that as the funds at the disposal of the Committee were quite inadequate for any purpose of general education the best application of them would be to high education which was of course out of the reach of the masses and only attainable by the few. [...] Most of its members and especially the seniors were civilians who had distinguished themselves in the College of Fort William then in the height of its reputation ; most of them were leading members of the Asiatic Society of which the professed ()Med was the investigtion of the history and antiquities of the East and which had disseminated in the Calcutta community a spirit of orientalism co [...] The Roman hind of both is discernible in many of the despatches of the Court of Directors." DESPATCH OF JAMES MILL 23 The ends proposed in the institution of the Hindoo College at Benares) and the same may be affirmed of the Mahomedan were two —the first to make a favourable impression by our encouragement of their literature upon the minds of the natives ; and the second to promote useful [...] Wilkinson's great efforts and success were in the Sanscrit branch of the higher class in which the Hindoo mathematics and the Ilindoo system of astronomy are adopted as the foundation of the -course of study." From the Sidhants which are wholly free from the fables of the Poorans and. [...] His Lordship in Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the Nativeof India ; and that all the funds appropriated for the purposes of eduction would be best employed on English education alone." On the receipt of this order the Committee resolved that: 9 henceforth "schools for the teaching of En