HENRY MORSE STEPHENS

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The Measures first adopted for educating the Natives.

The Establishment of the Committee of Public In-

struction. Their first Plan of Operations. The

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The Resolution

Difference of Opinion which arose.

of Government of the 7th March 1835. The Mea-

sures adopted by the Committee in consequence. — No

Distinction of Caste allowed in the new Seminaries.

Cultivation of the Vernacular Languages. Education

of the Wards of Government. The Medical College.

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The Study of Foreign Languages and Literature

powerful Instrument of National Improvement. — The

Instruction of the Upper and Middle Classes the first

Object.

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CHAPTER III.

The violent Opposition made by Oriental Scholars to the

Resolution of the 7th March 1835. The whole Ques-

tion rests upon Two Points; first, Whether English or

Arabic and Sanskrit Literature is best calculated for the

Improvement of the People of India? and, secondly,

Whether, supposing English Literature to be best

adapted for that Purpose, the Natives are willing to

cultivate it? These Points considered.

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Objections answered.

CHAPTER IV.

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Construction of the Charter Act

of 1813. Change in the Employment of the public

Endowments for the Encouragement of Learning.

Abolition of Stipends.

Probability of the Natives

being able to prosecute the Study of English with

effect. -The alleged Necessity of cultivating Arabic

and Sanskrit for the sake of improving the Vernacular

Languages. The Plan of employing Maulavees and

Pundits as our Agents for the Propagation of Eu-

ropean Science.

Whether or not it is our Duty to

patronise the same Kind of Learning as our Prede-

cessors.

CHAPTER V.

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Proofs that the Time has arrived for taking up the Ques-

tion of National Education. The Disuse of the Per-

sian Language.

· The many important bearings of this

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Change. The Codification of the Mahommedan and

Hindu Law. The increased Employment of the

Natives. The Concurrence of all Classes of the Com-

munity towards the Object.

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CHAPTER VI.

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The Establishment of a Seminary at each Zillah Station, a

necessary Preliminary to further Operations. The

Preparation of Books in the Vernacular Languages.

A Law of Copyright required. Native Education in

the Madras and Bombay Presidencies. — The Establish-

ment of a comprehensive System of public Instruction

for the whole of British India urgently required.

The public Importance of a separate Provision being

made for the Prosecution of Researches into ancient

Asiatic Literature.

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CHAPTER VII.

The Political Tendency of the different Systems of

Education in Use in India.

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APPENDIX.

Extract from the Report of the Committee appointed by

the Indian Government to inquire into the State of

Medical Education.

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