Indian Education

Rhodes' will come to Oxford from all parts of the Empire." For the next seven years he will contribute the annual sum of £ 1 31o: (t) for the maintenance of a resident Professor of Colonial History together with assistant lecturers in the subject ; (2) for the establishment of an annual prize of Aso for an essay on the Advantages of Imperial Citizenship; and (3) for the purchase of books on the s [...] and alternative special subject in the examination papers of the Modern History School ; and (4) that it shall include the following subjects :—(a) the history of imperial policy towards British possessions ; (b) the detailed history of the separate self-governing colonies including the American colonies before the Declaration of Independence ; (c) the detailed history of all other British posses [...] Furthermore—and here the writer would like to interject that his perso nal bias in his own studies lies in the direction of Constitutional and Political History—the course that would be of most value to Indian students is surely the study of the economic and social history of the English people rather than the history of the constitution and of parliament. [...] In the first place the author seems to assume that those who maintain the validity of the inference from the effect to the nature of the cause are leaning exclusively on the relation of resemblance and that they are contending for the existence of this relation in all cases. [...] The history of education in the Transvaal* from this time narrates the attempts of the Council to extort more favourable conditions from the State only to be met with scorn and contumely." Such increase of scholars as was made was due to the large subsidies paid by the State towards the education of children—out of taxes collected largely from Uitlanderand to the efforts of the voluntary work