A strong advocate of varnacular education was
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On February 2, 1835, British politician Thomas Babington Macaulay circulated Minute on Education, a treatise that offered definitive reasons for why the East India Company and the British government should spend money on the provision of English language education, as well as the promotion of European learning.
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The Vernaculars, 1835-1839: A Third Medium for Indian Education
John D. Windhausen
Sociology of Education
Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring, 1964), pp. 254-270 (17 pages)
Published By: American Sociological Association
Abstract
In 1835 a decision was made to use government educational funds in British India solely for the promotion of education in the English language. Macaulay's famous eulogy of the English tongue proved decisive in defeating the sponsors of the classical Indian languages. It is not generally recognized that the vernacular languages were then advanced as a third possibility. From 1835 to 1839 William Adam, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Frederick Shore and William Campbell worked to rescind the decree favoring English. Their literary campaign included a defense of the vernaculars against the charge that they were unable to convey modern concepts; and it included, too, the claim that greater numbers would be reached by this medium. Their efforts forced the Governor-General to review the whole question in 1839, and, although the earlier decision was upheld, vernacular education was later financed both in British India and in British Africa.
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Sociology of Education (SOE) provides a forum for studies in the sociology of education and human social development.SOE publishes research that examines how social institutions and individuals' experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development. Such research may span various levels of analysis, ranging from the individual to the structure of relations among social and educational institutions. In an increasingly complex society, important educational issues arise throughout the life cycle. The journal presents a balance of papers examining all stages and all types of education at the individual, institutional, and organizational levels.
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