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affiliated aided Alexander Duff Allahabad University ancient Anglicists appointed Arabic Arts Bengal Bombay Brahman British Education Buddhistic Calcutta caste cation cent century character classes classical language Committee Court of Directors culture degree Despatch of 1854 Duff educa Education Commission education in India educational system Engineering England English language established expenditure Faculty followed funds Government Governor-General graduates Grant High Schools Hindus History important indigenous education indigenous schools influence inquiries institutions instruction intellectual knowledge lakh large number learned natives Licentiate in Teaching literature Lord Lord Macaulay Macaulay's Madras Medicine ment Middle Schools Mission moral Muhammadan natives of India officers Orientalists Patasalas population present Presidency primary education Primary Schools provinces Public Punjab pupils religion revenues Sanskrit and Arabic Sanskrit language Sanskrit or Arabic Science secondary Sir Charles Sir Charles Trevelyan Sir Charles Wood subjects Syndicate system of grants-in-aid taught teachers Thomas Munro tion total number Ulfilas University vernacular
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Page 26 - I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Page 213 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India...
Page 26 - Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations.
Page 27 - Whether we look at the intrinsic value of our literature or at the particular situation of this country we shall see the strongest reason to think that of all foreign tongues the English tongue is that which would be the most useful to our native subjects.
Page 26 - In India, English is the language spoken by the ruling class. It is spoken by the higher class of natives at the seats of Government. It is likely to become the language of commerce throughout the seas of the East. It is the language of two great European communities which are rising, the one in the south of Africa, the other in Australasia ; communities which are every year becoming more important and more closely connected with our Indian Empire.
Page 74 - Among many subjects of importance, none can have a stronger claim to our attention than that of education. It is one of our most sacred duties to be the means, as far as in us lies, of conferring upon the natives of India those vast moral and material blessings which flow from the general diffusion of useful knowledge, and which India may, under Providence, derive from her connection with England.
Page 37 - ... create a prejudice against education, to render the Government unpopular, and even to compromise its dignity. The soliciting of contributions from the people is declared inexpedient, and strong doubts are expressed as to the suitability of the grant-in-aid system as hitherto in force for the supply of vernacular education to the masses of the population. Such vernacular instruction should, it is suggested, be provided by the direct instrumentality of the officers of Government, on the basis of...
Page 217 - ... commonly spoken among the natives of this part of India contain neither literary nor scientific information, and are moreover so poor and rude that, until they are enriched from some other quarter, it will not be easy to translate any valuable work into them. It seems to be admitted on all sides, that the intellectual improvement of those classes of the people who have the means of pursuing higher studies can at present be effected only by means of some language not vernacular amongst them.
Page 26 - Sanscrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...
Page 212 - By planting our language, our knowledge, our opinions, and our religion in our Asiatic territories, we shall put a great work beyond the reach of contingencies ; we shall probably have wedded the inhabitants of those territories to this country ; but, at any rate, we shall have done an act of strict duty to them, and of lasting service to mankind.