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Education and Statesmanship in India 1797-1910

1911

The givirig or witholding of education was no part of the plans of Clive the first founder of the Empire any more than it was part of the plans of the enterprising Englishmen who formed the Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. [...] The actual words of the despatch were 11` set apart and applied to the revival and improvement bf literature and to the encouragement of th© learned natives of India and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences in the British territories of India." The practical interprettion given to these instructions—whatever may have been in the minds of the framers of the despat [...] The history of that establishment can be told ; and as the history of the Hindu College links itself in the fulness of time with the foundation of Presidency College Calcutta and the organization of education departments in all the provinces of British India we are in that history relating also the substantial beginnings of the movement for education which has steadily progressed from that da [...] The reasons given for the appointment of the Comission were the length of time that had elapsed since the Despatch of 1854 and the consequent expediency of “ a more careful examination into the results attained and into the working of the present arrangements than has hitherto been attempted.” It was really due largely to outside agitation and to the pledges given by the Marquis of Ripon before [...] We require first to study the character and causes of university reform ; and then to make some independent survey of secondary and primary school education in India as each of these has been developed under the influence of the Despatch of 1854 and the Commission of 1882." IX UNIVERSITY REFORM 1901-1906 THE causal connection sugagested in the course of the review of—the recommendations of the Co
education
Pages
149
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.144891
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi H.R. James view
I. The Need for a Review
1-5 H.R. James view
II. Origin of the Educational Movement
6-11 H.R. James view
III. The First Stirrings
12-16 H.R. James view
IV. The Adoption of English Education
17-24 H.R. James view
V. The Adoption of English—was it a Mistake ?
25-30 H.R. James view
VI. Progress 1835 to 1854
31-38 H.R. James view
VII. The Foundation and Growth of Universities
39-45 H.R. James view
VIII. The Commission of 1882
46-54 H.R. James view
IX. University Reform 1901-1906
55-65 H.R. James view
X. High English Schools
66-73 H.R. James view
XI. Moral and Religious Education
74-91 H.R. James view
XII. Mass Education
92-99 H.R. James view
XIII. The Education Departments and their Work
100-107 H.R. James view
XIV. The Higher Educational Service
108-117 H.R. James view
XV. The Political Movement in its Relation to Education
118-132 H.R. James view
XVI. Conclusions
133-141 H.R. James view
Bibliography
142-143 H.R. James view

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