The Educational Review a Monthly Record for India December 1897

Themore fully too and the more accurately is the wonderful story told of the gradual building up of the British Constitution the more will the educaed classes of India recognise the fact that England's political privileges have not been obtained in a single generation and that her constitution is the outcome of centuries of oganic growth. [...] What seems to offend that gentleman most is this reference to a past greatness and a past unity of the Hindus." He quotes the unfortunate and discredited Professor G okhale as saying— We (that is the Indians) were the first to emerge from barbarism : and my nation was not only great but was the greatest of all on the face of the earth long before anyone had heard of the older States of the Wes [...] To this I reply that the diinclination of the literate villager for study and the poverty of vernacular literatureilin the matter of the supply of knowledge soon make the key rusty and useless while in spite of schools the traditional ignorance continues to enshroud the whole land from 8eneration to gegeration and the percentage of vernacular literates retrains deplorably the"5 46 THE EDUC [...] But when we come to the questions put to the candidates for degrees and the answers expected pf them we shall see that the well-beiik and education of the masses is one of the distinctly implied puposes of the University. [...] I have endeavoured to show' that with the exception of a very minute fraction of the population namely 010 o the whole Presidency lies in the depth and darkness of ignorance that Primary schools have done and cat do little for the removal of this ignorance ; that the University alone by means of its graduates could educate the masses of the people ; that this is implied in its constitution an