...education. The administrative decree effectuating Macaulay's policy in 1835 is unambiguous on this: 'the great object of the British Government ought...India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone' (Khubchandani 1983: 120). This...

...the introduction and diffusion of English in the subcontinent reads as follows : First. His Lordship in Council is of opinion that the great object of...India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone. Second. But it is not the intention...

...made clear in the 1830s when we had the famous declaration of intent made by Lord Macaulay, who said: 'The great object of the British government ought...literature and science among the natives of India.' In this they truly achieved their objectives and more, for we were not only taught about the tremendous...

...morals and in intellect" (Curtin, 1971). On March 7, 1835, Lord Bentick (in Rahman, 1996) announced that: The great object of the British government ought...and science among the natives of India; and that all funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone,...

...sealed by the 1835 resolution of Governor-General Lord William Bentinck, committing the British to "the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India." Bentinck's decision, one of the most momentous in the history of European colonization, was based on...

...and reigns thirty thousand years long and geography made up of seas of treacle and rivers of butter. The great object of the British government ought to...literature and science among the natives of India.' SECTION C CAMPAIGNING FOR THE FUTURE 10 0 KING OF TREES, 1 BOW BEFORE YOU O King of trees! I bow before...

...the new law member in iS34. In a resolution of the following year he declared 'that the great obtects of the British government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science ... through the medium of the English language'.'''* Such was the success of this programme that later...

...March 1835, in which it was decreed that, whilst no institutions of native learning would be abolished, 'the great object of the British government ought...India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone'. Moreover, no government funds...

...reformer Ram Mohun Roy. It soon was followed up by British policy, so that in 1835 a resolution was passed "that the great object of the British government ought...the promotion of European literature and science." Funds should "be henceforth employed in imparting to the Native population knowledge of English literature...

...William Bentinck, the then Governor-General, issued the historic resolution in which it was laid down that 'the great object of the British government ought...literature and science among the natives of India.' The introduction of western education has quickened our national life and activities. There are criticisms,...