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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.
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
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.
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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