Colonial Education and India 1781-1945

This 5-volume set tracks the various legal, administrative and social documentation on the progress of Indian education from 1780 to 1947. This fourth volume features commentaries, reports and policy documents from the period 1823-1920 from an Indian perspective. The documents not only map a cultural history of English education in India but capture the debates in and around each of these domains through coverage of English (language, literature, pedagogy), the journey from school-to-university, and technical and vocational education. Produced by statesmen, educationists, administrators, teachers, Vice Chancellors and native national leaders, the documents testify to the complex processes through which colleges were set up, syllabi formed, the language of instruction determined, and infrastructure built. The sources vary from official Minutes to orders, petitions to pleas, speeches to opinion pieces. The collection contributes, through the mostly unmediated documents, to our understanding of the British Empire, of the local responses to the Empire and imperial policy and of the complex negotiations within and without the administrative structures that set about establishing the college, the training institute and the teaching profession itself.

Pramod K. Nayar is teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India

Volume IV: Indian Responses - Raja Rammohan Roy, 'Letter to Amherst, 11th December 1823', in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records Part I, 1781-1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1920), 98-101. - 'Petition by Students of Sanscrit College to Auckland, Seeking Continuation of Funding for Sanskrit, 9th August 1836', in H. Sharp (ed.), Selections from Educational Records Part I, 1781-1839 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1920), 145-146. - K. M. Banerjea, 'An Essay on Native Female Education', (Calcutta: R.C. Lepage & Co., British Library, 1848), 1-123. - 'An Appeal from a Native Christian of the Punjab to the Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society', Indian Female Evangelist (July 1875), 289-291. - Evidence of Syed Badruddin Tyabji on Muslim Education, Evidence Taken Before the Bombay Provincial Committee and Memorials Addressed to the Education Commission (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1884), 497- 508 - Evidence Taken Before the Bombay Provincial Committee and Memorials addressed to the Education Commission (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1881, Vol. II), 223-242, 255-259, 261-270, 302-313, 11-14 (Appendix). - Jotiba Phule's Statement to the Education Commission, Evidence Taken Before the Bombay Provincial Committee and Memorials Addressed to the Education Commission (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1881, Vol. II), 140-145. - Report by the North-Western Provinces and Oudh Provincial Committee with Evidence Taken Before the Bombay Provincial Committee and Memorials addressed to the Education Commission (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1884. 282-302, 351-353, 373-376,397-411, 412-418, 433-434, 442-443, 452-453, 462-470, 471-474, 478-479. - S. Satthianadhan, extracts from History of Education in the Madras Presidency (Madras: Srinivasa Varadachari &Co., 1894), 36-38, 73-76, 109-112, 165-168, cxiii-cxxi. - Gopal Krishna Gokhale, 'Speech in the Imperial Legislative Council on the Primary Education Bill, 16th March 1911', Speeches of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Vol. 2 (Madras: G.A. Natesan, 1916, 2nd ed.), 718-803. - Appendix to the Report of the Commissioners. Vol XX: Minutes of Evidence Relating the Education Department taken at Delhi, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay and London, 1915, 46-55, 119-129, 138-143. - Jadunath Sarkar, 'The Vernacular Medium', Modern Review 23 (1918), 2- 7. - K.M. Panikkar, 'The Educational Problems of Indian Education', Modern Review 23 (1918). 8-17. - H.V. Dugvekar (ed.), extracts from National Education (Benares: Balabodha Office, 1917), 4-10, 29-33, 62-86.