BRITISH EDUCATION

2.  Lord Minto Period
 Charles Grant and William Wilberforce Compelled to
give up its policy
 The company was set one lakh rupees annually for
Education
 But Company use it only for Promote Indian language
and Literature
 1817- Calcutta College with the effort of Raja Ram
Mohan Roy
 Three Sanskrit Colleges – Calcutta, Delhi, Agra

3.  Lord Hastings Period
 Consists 10 Members of Two groups
 Orientalists, Anglicists
 Orientalists argued Indian learning with
vernacular languages
 Anglicists Argued Modren Studies

4.  “Minute on Indian Education” 1835
 Favour of Anglicists
 Persian(Court language) ----- English
 Each Province – Own Education policy
 He views Indian learning was inferior to
European learning
 “Downward Filtration Theory”
 1835 Calcutta Medical college
 1845 Grant Medical College in Bombay
 1849 Bethune School at Calcutta

5.  Lieutenant Governor of Western Provinces
 Scheme of Village Education in Vernacular
Languages
 To train the personnel for revenue and public
works
 1847 Engineering Institute at Roorke

6.  Lord Dalhousie Period
 “Magna Carta of English Education in India”
 Policy for educating Masses at all levels
 Rejects “Downward Filtration Theory”
 Primary – Vernacular Language
 Higher Studies – English
 Every district must contain one government
school
 Grants-in-aid system - Private

7.  Department of Public Instruction in every
Provinces – 1855
 Universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
in 1857
 Teacher’s Training Institutions
 Promotion of Education for Women

8.  Afters Crown took over
 To review of Wood’s Dispatch
 States role in Primary Education
 Giving free education to a certain percentage
of the poor.
 English as the medium of instruction
 Literary and Practical Learning
 Involvement of Private Education
 1882 Punjab university
 1887 Allahabad university

9.  Zakir Hussain committee formulated a detailed
scheme for education
 “Learning through Activity” (Harijan)
 Education in Mother tongue
 Handicraft Syllabus
 First 7 years free schooling and compulsory of nation
wide education.
 Hindi for class II to VII and English after VIII
 The scheme was not famous because of WWII and
resignation congress ministry

10.  by Sir John Sargent
 Compulsory and free primary education for all
 Free and compulsory education for Junior basic(6-
11)
 High School education for 6yrs to Selected children
between 11 -17
 A three year university course for selected students
 Educational facilities for the physically and mentally
handicapped children.