ON
THE EDUCATION
OF
THE PEOPLE OF INDIA.
CHAPTER I.
The Measures first adopted for educating the Natives.—The Establishment of the Committee of Public Instruction Their first Plan of Operations.—The Difference of Opinion which arose.—The Resolution of Government of the 7th March 1835.—The Measures 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.—Mr. Adam’s Deputation..
The history of the first efforts made by us for the education of our Indian fellow-subjects may be told in a few words. The Mohammedan college at Calcutta was established a.d. 1781, and the Sanskrit college at Benares a. d. 1792. The
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