History of Education in India Under the Rule of the East India Company

by Baman Das Basu

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

222 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1999

Reviews

[Ravi Narayanan]

This book is avaliable on Google books. It captures the introduction of the current type of school system in India. Reading these type of books gives a very different perspective of Indian history that what we were taught (lied) in Schools.

[Supriyo Chaudhuri]

This is an out of print history of education in India under the early years of East India Company, covering the period from late eighteenth century to the Education Despatch of 1854. The book, written in 1920s, is very much a nationalist narrative, with a wounded sense of Hindu pride, which seems out of place today. The book is useful as it presents long extracts, often running several pages, from Parliamentary documents and East India company sources. The writing otherwise is unwieldy, full of exhortation like Hindu women gladly climbed into the pyre of their dead husbands rather than falling in the hands of Muslim invaders etc.