explain any five steps taken by the Britishers for the growth of modern education in India
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Education is a powerful tool to unlock the golden door of freedom that can change the world. With the advent of the British Rule in India, their policies and measures breached the legacies of traditional schools of learning which resulted in the need for creating a class of subordinates. To achieve this goal, they instituted a number of acts to create an Indian canvas of English colour through the education system.
Initially, the British East India Company was not concerned with the development of the education system because their prime motive was trading and profit-making. To rule in India, they planned to educate a small section of upper and middle classes to create a class “Indian in blood and colour but English in taste” who would act as interpreters between the Government and the masses. This was also called the “downward filtration theory”. The following steps and measures were taken by the British for the development of Education in India
Summary on the History of Modern Education during British India
1. Warren Hastings set up the Calcutta Madrasa in 1781 for the study and learning of Persian and Arabic. In 1791, the efforts of Jonathan Duncan opened Sanskrit College at Banaras for understanding of the laws, literature and religion of the Hindus.
2. The Fort William College was set up by Lord Wellesley in 1800 for the training of the civil servants of the company in vernacular languages and customs of India. The College published an English-Hindustani dictionary, a Hindustani grammar and some other books. However to impart training to civil servants a East India College at Hailebury, England was established in 1807.
3. Charter Act, (1813): It provided for an annual expenditure of one lakh of rupees "for the revival and promotion of literature and the encouragement of then learned natives of India and for the introduction and promotion of knowledge of the science among the inhabitants of the British territories."
4. Sir Charles Wood's Despatch on Education, 1854: It is considered as the Magna Carta of English Education in India. It declared that the aim of the Government's educational policy was the teaching of Western Education. The three universities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay came into existence in 1857. It proposed the setting up of primary schools (vernacular languages) at the lowest level, high school in Anglo vernacular and colleges (English Medium) at district level.
5. The Hunter Education Commission, 1882-83: The principal object of the enquiry of the commission was to present the state of elementary education throughout the Indian Empire and the means by which this can be extended and improved.
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