women education in british era
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Impact of British Empire on Indian Education
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English education in India has its foundation in the 18th century. The missionaries came to India with the East India Company and various measures were adopted to educate the local population. The missionary activities also included conversion to Christianity and as such the Indian population was weary of the education given by them. In 1773 Warren Hastings established the foundation of British Education. The controversy was generated because of the education being Western in its content and delivery.
Women education in the british era in india was a big achievement and also , at the beginning, it was a chaos.
The women in india during british reign, were not allowed to study or get educated by any means as the indian people had the mindset that if the women studied then who would do the housework. Also, they did not want to send girls to schools to study as the family members thought that the outside-world activities would spoil the women's simple minds. The british, during that time were busy promoting the vernacular studies and the orientalism studies in india and hence did not bother about women's education until the british had finally set up a proper education system in india. The time when indian girls started attending school, the britid=sh still ruled but the main contribution was from the reformers like jyotiba phule, ishwar chandra vidyasagr, maharishi dayanand saraswati, etc. They all had support from british in a very small propertion while setting up girl's school in different parts of india. The british sometimes helped them by promoting the school and also by sometimes passing colonial laws allowing the indians to send women or girls to school for education. But the women's education was not a matter of great concern to the britishers as it was to the indian reformers.
Such was the case of women's education during british era in india.