England’s Educational Policy in India

The educational _policy pursued by the Goverment of India during the last hundred years is the subject of study in the following pages in which the author has attempted to draw a realistic picture of the educational position in India compared with the other civilised coutries of the world. [...] PREFACE EVER since the nominal transference of the Department of Education to Indians after the introduction of the post-war Reforms of 1919 a _great deal cf interest has been evinced in the progress of education by all sections of the Indian public and by foreigners interested in the welfare of our nation. [...] Report of the Committee appointed by the Government of Bombay to consider and report on the question of the introduction of free and copulsory primary education in the Presidency of Bombay. [...] The influence of missionary activties was evidenced -at the time of the renewal of the East India Company's charter in 1813 when the British Parliment compelled the Directors of the East 1. Fuller: Empire of India p. 173. [...] of the members of the Senate were to be Government' nominees and the Governor of the province in which the University was located was to be the ex-officio Chancellor of the University.