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The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India August 1883

1883

It is now exactly seventy years ago that Parliament directed the East India Company to set apart a lac of rupees a year "for the revival and promotion of literature and the encouragement of the learned natives of India and for the introduction of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories." Such was the general apathy on the subject amongst Indian aministrat [...] Leitner the Principal of Lahore College and orignator of the title Kaiser-i-Hind " in supporting one of the resolutions stated the interesting fact that formerly the laws of the Punjab were given in a musical form and that a parliament of poets was still in the habit of meeting in the city of Umritsir. [...] Women in the British Isles I am told do not neglect the kitchen the dairy and the market for having their minds elarged and enriched and their faculties strengthened by various knowledge ; and the most learned women and the educated wives of the philosophers and great thinkers of the day in Europe are among the best housekeepers and are known to be very good hands in the preparation of jam [...] The adoption of the name India by the British Goverment has confirmed it in the political vocabulary of the country and " the educated Hindus " as the people of the country who have received the benefits of the present system of English instruction are called have been giving currency to the name among themselves and in their intercourse with the masses. [...] ) Fictions to please should wear the face of truth." (All rights in this translation remain with the author of the tale.) [For the assistance of the reader the names of the principal characters in the following chapters are subjoined.] Sasibliusan the elder brother.
government politics public policy
Pages
60
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120043
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Medical Women for India
457-459 unknown view
Address to the Madras Graduates
459-464 unknown view
Water and Public Health
464-468 unknown view
The National Anthem for India
469-470 unknown view
Home Education for Hindu Girls
471-484 unknown view
The Name India
484-485 P. V. Raju view
Shornalata: A Tale of Hindu Life
486-503 Tarak Ganguli view
The Maharaja of Vizianagram’s Schools Madras
503-506 unknown view
Central Bengal Union
506-506 unknown view
Indian Intelligence
507-508 unknown view
Personal Intelligence
508-508 unknown view