Colonial Education and India 1781-1945, Vol. I: Commentaries, Reports, Policy Documents

283 Pages·2019·1.226 MB·English

by  Pramod K. Nayar

COLONIAL EDUCATION
AND INDIA 1781–1945

COLONIAL EDUCATION
AND INDIA 1781–1945
Edited by
Pramod K. Nayar
Volume I
Commentaries, Reports, Policy Documents
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CONTENTS
VOLUME I COMMENTARIES, REPORTS, POLICY
DOCUMENTS
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction 1
1 Warren Hastings, ‘Minute on Madrasas, 17th April 1781’,
in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records Part I,
1781–1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing,
1920), 7–9 9
2 J. Duncan, ‘Letter, 1st January 1792’, in H. Sharp (ed.),
Selections from Educational Records Part I, 1781–1839
(Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1920), 10–11 12
3 ‘Rules for Hindoo College, 1792’, in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections
from Educational Records Part I, 1781–1839 (Calcutta:
Superintendent Government Printing, 1920), 11–12 14
4 Charles Grant, extract from O bservations on the State of
Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain
(1792/1797), 148–167 16
5 Holt Mackenzie, ‘Note on Public Education, 17th July 1823’,
in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records Part I,
1781–1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing,
1920), 57–64 31
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6 ‘Letter from the Committee on Public Instruction, 18th August
1824’, in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records
Part I, 1781–1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government
Printing, 1920), 93–98 38
7 H. T. Prinsep, ‘Note on Vernacular Education, 15th February
1835’, in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records
Part I, 1781–1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government
Printing, 1920), 117–129 43
8 T. B. Macaulay, ‘Minute on English Education, 2nd February
1835’, in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records
Part I, 1781–1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government
Printing, 1920), 107–117 55
9 William Bentinck, ‘Resolution, 7th March 1835’, in H. Sharp
(ed.), Selections from Educational Records Part I, 1781–1839
(Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1920), 130–131 65
10 H. T. Prinsep, ‘Minute on Vernacular Education, 20th May
1835’, in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records
Part I, 1781–1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government
Printing, 1920), 134–139 67
11 Letters and debates from the Calc utta Monthly Journal
(November 1836), 271–278, 299–308 72
12 Lord Auckland, ‘Minute on Native Education, 24th November
1839’, in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records
Part I, 1781–1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government
Printing, 1920), 147–170 102
13 Charles Trevelyan, extracts from On the Education of the
People of India (Lo ndon: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green
and Longmans, 1838), 36–43, 50–57, 78–91, 106–115 124
14 ‘Appendix: Extract from the Report of the Committee
Appointed by the Indian Government to Inquire into the
State of Medical Education’, in Charles Trevelyan, On the
Education of the People of India (London: Longman, Orme,
Brown, Green and Longmans, 1838), 207–220 139
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15 Sarah Tucker, extract from ‘Central School for Native Girls’,
in South Indian Sketches, Part I (London: James Nisbet,
1848, 3rd edn), 73–84 147
16 William Adam, extracts from Report on Vernacular Education
in Bengal and Behar (1835, 1836, 1838) (Calcutta: Home
Secretariat Press, 1868), 1–6, 19–20, 131–132, 217–220,
258–262, 271–274, 307–309, 314–317 153
17 Extracts from Report of the General Committee on Public
In struction of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal for
the Year 1839–40 (Calcutta: G. H. Huttman, 1841), i–v,
xxxvii, ccxxxii, clv–clix, xciv–civ, ccxxxiii–ccxxxiv 174
18 Priscilla Chapman, extract from Hindoo Female Education
(London: R. B. Seeley and W Burnside, 1839), 64–97 206
19 Extract from Report on Public Instruction in the North-Western
Provinces, 1850–51, in J. A. Richey, Selections from Educational
Records Part 2 1840–1859 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government
Printing, 1922), 257–258 219
20 J.E.D. Bethune, ‘Minute, 23rd January 1851’, in J. A. Richey,
Selections from Educational Records Part 2 1840–1859 (Calcutta:
Superintendent Government Printing, 1922), 28–31 221
21 J.E.D. Bethune’s speeches at Kishnaghar, in General Report
on Public I nstruction in the Lower Provinces of the Bengal
Presidency (Calcutta: F. Carberry, Military Orphan Press,
1852), iii–xv 224
22 Extracts from General Report on Public Instruction in the
Lower Provinces of the Bengal Pr esidency, 1844–45 (Calcutta:
Sanders and Cones, 1845), iii–v, xlii, xliv–xlviii, lxxi–lxxxiii 235
23 C. H. Cameron, extracts from Addr ess to Parliament on the
Duties of Great Britain to India, in Respect of the Education
of the Natives, and Their Offi cial Employment (London:
Spottiswoode and Shaw, 1853), 50–51, 60–64, 80–81, 101–103,
114–121, 137, 149–151, 153–155 254
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VOLUME II COMMENTARIES, REPORTS, POLICY
DOCUMENTS
1 ‘Wood’s Educational Despatch, 19 July 1854’, in J. A. Richey,
Selections from Educational Records Part 2 1840–1859 (Calcutta:
Superintendent Government Printing, 1922), 365–393 1
2 ‘Letter, 10th March 1854, from the Council of Education to
the Government of Bengal’, in J. A. Richey, Selections from
Educational Records Part 2 1840–1859 (Calcutta:
Superintendent Government Printing, 1922), 119–125 26
3 Christian Education for India in the Mother Tongue:
A Statement on the Formation of a Christian Vernacular
Education Society (London: William Nichols, 1855), 3–41 32
4 ‘Vernacular Publications and Literacy’, in Selections from
the Records of the Bengal Government (Calcutta: John Gray,
General Printing Department, 1859), xix–xx 60
5 Martha Weitbrecht, extracts from The Women of India and
Christian Work in the Zenana (London: James Nisbet, 1875),
55–66, 110–114, 129–134 62
6 ‘The Sarah Tucker Institution, Tinnevely, South India’,
Indian Female Evangelist (Jan–July 1878), 9–16 73
7 ‘Diffi culties of Zenana Teaching’, Indian Female Evangelist
(Oct 1878), 154–159 79
8 James Johnston, extract from Our Educational Policy in India
(Edinburgh: John Maclaren and Son, 1880), 37–57 84
9 ‘Recommendations’, in Report of the Indian Education
Commission (Calcutta: Superintendent Government
Printing, 1883), 311–312, 590–602, 604–618 99
10 Extracts from Report of the Indian Education Commission
(Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1883),
480–491, 494–517, 524–549 132
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11 Extracts from Report of the Bombay Provincial Committee
(Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1884),
71–83, 156–162, 165–167 208
12 Extracts from Papers Relating to Technical Education in India
1886–1904 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing,
1906), 1–4, 29–34, 50–54, 83–85, 116–117, 131–133, 246–249,
251–253 237
13 William Lee-Warner, extract from The Citizen of India
(London: Macmillan, 1900), 162–177 282
14 Report of the Indian Universities Commission (Simla: Government
Central Printing Offi ce, 1902), 16, 27–29, 51–52, 63–69, 81–84 289
15 J. G. Covernton, extracts from Vernacular Reading Books in the
Bombay Presidency (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government
Printing, 1906), 1–3, 23–26, 44–49, 80–81 308
16 Leonard Alston, extract from Education and Citizenship in
India (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910), 144–195 317
VOLUME III COMMENTARIES, REPORTS, POLICY
DOCUMENTS
1 H.R. James, extracts from E ducation and Statesmanship
in India (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911),
74–91, 118–132 1
2 Indian Educational Policy , Being a Resolution Issued by
the Governor General in Council on the 21s t February 1913
(Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1915), 1–47 19
3 A. H. Benton, extracts from Indian Moral Instruction and
Caste Problems (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1917),
1–10, 31–32, 92–112 43
4 Extracts from The Calcutta University Commission [Sadler]
Report (1919), Vol. 1: 19–30, 143–194, 318–326; Vol. 6: 2–6,
132–135, 169–171 67
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