Analyse the differences between the viewpoints of the orientalists and anglicists regarding the spread of education in India. which viewpoint would you support and why?
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the medium of instruction, the agencies for organizing educational institutions and the methods to be adopted to spread education among the people. The controversies and schools of thought were found mostly among the European officials of the Company. Indian opinion was at this time, almost non-existent.
The most important argument of the Oriental party centred round the interpretation of the section 43 of the Charter Act of 1813, and which was also responsible for aggravating the controversy. As, has been stated earlier, this section directed that a sum of not less than a lakh of rupees shall be expended every year for “the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned natives of India and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India”. The Oriental party put forward the argument that the literature which was meant to be revived and encouraged was the literature of Hindus and Muslims.
The encouragement of learned men meant, that support will be given to scholar.s who were studying in Oriental Colleges in the shape of stipends and by publishing classical works for their use. As regards the introduction and promotion of a know ledge of the sciences, they argued that Western knowledge and sciences should be taught to them through the medium of the classical languages (or the modern Indian languages) and along with that they should also be taught the culture of their land for which they had great love and regard. They, therefore, suggested that the action of the General Committee of Public Instructions in translating useful books from English into Arabic and Sanskrit was perfectly justified.
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