1883 Report of Education System in India
I happened to find, with my usual curiosity, about India's ancient documents, in a computer server somewhere in an Australian educational institution! Precisely from "La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria" Title: "William Hunter , ( 1883 ), Report of the Indian Education Commission , Calcutta , Superintendent of Government Printing, India" If you are curious too, read it here :) This link is pointed at Page 8. Some excerpts: ['Meanwhile, a new influence in favour of popular education was being brought to bear upon the Indian Government by missionary and philanthropic bodies both in this country and in Europe. The old system, however, did not give place to the new without a struggle . For many years the medium and the character of the instruction to be given in Government Schools and Colleges were the subject of a vigorous controversy between the Anglicists and the Orientalists. The former party urged that all instruction of the higher kind should ...