Question

write a note on Calcutta University Commission.

Answer 1

In 1917, the Calcutta University Commission was appointed by the Government of India under the Chairmanship of Mr. Michel Sadler, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds. So it was popularly known as the Sadler Commission. This Commission was appointed for the purpose of making recommendations to reform Calcutta University. Although it dealt with the Calcutta University only, the problems it had studied were more or less common to the other Indian Universities. So the report of the Commission is a document of in provincial importance and it had far reaching consequences upon the development of University in India as a whole.