The Great Indian Education Debate: Documents Relating to the Orientalist-Anglicist Controversy, 1781-1843

ISBN-13: 9781138975460 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 376 str.

Martin Moir;Lynn Zastoupil;¬Abar

Opis

A bitter debate erupted in 1834 between Orientalists and Anglicists over what kind of public education the British should promote in their growing Indian empire. This collection of the main documents pertaining to the controversy (some published for the first time) aims to recover the major British and South Asian voices, broaden our understanding of imperial discourses and recognise the significant role of the colonised in the shaping of colonial knowledge. Bringing together into a single volume documents not easily obtained - long out of print, never before published, or scattered about in sundry books and journals - enables modern readers to judge the relative merits of the various arguments and undermines the common impression that the controversy was simply an exercise in colonial power involving only Europeans.

Spis treści

Introduction Origins of the Controversy; Chapter 1 Minute by Warren Hastings, governor-general of Fort William (Calcutta) in Bengal, recorded in the Public DePart ment, 17 April 1781; Chapter 2 Part of a letter from Jonathan Duncan, resident at Benares, to Earl Cornwallis, governor-general in council of Fort William in Bengal, dated 1 January 1792; Chapter 3 Part of Chapter IV of Charles Grant’s Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain, Part icularly with Respect to Morals. Written Chiefly in 1792; Chapter 4 East India Company Charter Act of 1813, section 43 (53 Geo, III, c. 155, s. 43); Chapter 5 Court of Directors’ Public DePart ment dispatch to the governor-general in council of Fort William in Bengal, dated 3 June 1814, paragraphs 10 to 25; Chapter 6 Note by Holt Mackenzie, secretary to the Bengal government in the Territorial DePart ment, dated 17 July 1823; Chapter 7 Bengal government resolution in the Territorial: Revenue DePart ment, dated 17 July 1823; Chapter 8 Letter from Rammohun Roy to Lord Amherst, governor-general in council, dated 11 December 1823; Chapter 9 Court of Directors’ Revenue DePart ment dispatch to the governor-general in council of Fort William in Bengal, dated 18th February 1824, paragraphs 79 to 86; Chapter 10 Letter from the General Committee of Public Instruction to the governor-general, Lord Amherst, dated 18 August 1824; Chapter 11 Court of Directors’ Public DePart ment dispatch to the governor in council of Fort St. George (Madras), No. 34 of 29 September 1830; Chapter 12 Letter from J. C. C. Sutherland, secretary to the General Committee of Public Instruction, to H. T. Prinsep, secretary to the government of India in the General DePart ment, dated 21 January 1835; Chapter 13 Letter from J. C. C. Sutherland, secretary to the General Committee of Public Instruction, to H. T. Prinsep, secretary to the government of India in the General DePart ment, dated 22 January 1835; Chapter 14 Minute recor

O autorze

Lynn Zastoupil, Martin Moir