Education under Auckland: 1836-1842

The exact words deserve quotation : the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India and that the funds appropriated to education would be best employed in English education alone." The extreme Anglnista eager to have their ' pound of flesh ' took their stand on the word alone ' and devised measures to divert t [...] 1 of the Minute "19411 EDUCATION UNDER AUCKLAND : 1836-42 127 frankly stated that the insufficiency of the Funds assigned by the State for the purposes of public instruction has been amongst the main causes of violent disputes which have taken place upon the education question and that if the Funds previously appropriated to the cultvation of Oriental Literature had been spared and other mea [...] In the absence of any positive or specific promise he could not uphold the Orientalists' plea of immutability of goverment grants and admitted the propriety and legality of the diversion of funds from Oriental Colleges to Western education: Nev6rtheless be was prepared " to dispose of the question on the principle of a liberal consideration to all wants and claims. [...] Duff accused him of divided loyalty and alleged that Auckland proposed "to unite the living with the dead—to divide the empire of education equally between the devotees of antiquated error and the propagators of acknowledged truth." The tone of the Minute however does not support such an accusation. [...] The reasons for this were " tt e long period of study required and the necessity for giing extraordinary encouragement to the cultivation of studies to which the prejudices of the Hindus are strongly opposed." Aucklar d in introducing his scheme of scholarships relerred to in E. previous section expressed the desire that the Ey btem should eventually be extended to Medical College in super