The Correspondence of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General of India, 1828-1835

Embree, Ainslie T.; Philips, C. H.

doi:10.2307/1854743

The American Historical Review

1978

DOI: 10.2307/1854743

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The Correspondence of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General of India, 1828-1835

Ainslie T. Embree¹,

C. H. Philips²

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Lord William Bentinck's resolution of 1835 on Indian education: a rejected draft

Hilliker¹

1981

J.R. Asiat. Soc. G.B. Irel.

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In January 1835, the General Committee of Public Instruction, the semiofficial body responsible for administering the Government of India's education funds, reported deep internal division over matters of principle. One group within the Committee, the orientalists, wanted to continue the existing policy of supporting traditional Indian learning, with the prospect of gradually engrafting European subject-matter upon it. Their opponents, the Anglicists, urged the substitution of Western for Eastern studies (with some safeguards for the latter) and the use of English as the principal language of instruction. Because the dispute was hampering all but the most routine activity, the Committee requested the government to settle the question.

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Lord William Bentinck's resolution of 1835 on Indian education: a rejected draft

Hilliker¹

1981

J.R. Asiat. Soc. G.B. Irel.

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Macaulay's Minute Revisited: Colonial Language Policy in Nineteenth-century India

Evans¹

2002

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This paper examines a crucial episode in the history of language policy in British colonial education: the Orientalist-Anglicist controversy of the 1830s over the content and medium of government education in India. The bitter dispute over colonial language-in-education policy during this period raised fundamental questions about the roles and status of the English language and the Indian vernacular and classical languages in the diffusion of Western knowledge and ideas on the subcontinent. At the heart of many accounts of the controversy, not least those of a polemical nature, is Thomas Babington Macaulay's famous Minute of 1835, which advocated the creation of a class of anglicised Indians who would serve as cultural intermediariesbetween the British and their Indian subjects. This paper reassesses Macaulay's influence on British language policy in 19th century India. It begins by examining the background to the Orientalist-Anglicist dispute in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and then moves on to analyse the content and purpose of the Minute. The second part examines the short-term and long-term consequences of Macaulay's scheme in India and in other British colonial contexts.

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Men and Women of Feeling: Conventions of Sensibility and Sentimentality in the Sati Debate and Mainwaring's The Suttee

Herman¹

2005

Comparative Literature Studies

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The Correspondence of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General of India, 1828-1835

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Lord William Bentinck's resolution of 1835 on Indian education: a rejected draft

Lord William Bentinck's resolution of 1835 on Indian education: a rejected draft

Macaulay's Minute Revisited: Colonial Language Policy in Nineteenth-century India

Men and Women of Feeling: Conventions of Sensibility and Sentimentality in the Sati Debate and Mainwaring's The Suttee

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