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This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent
and growth of English education in India. The first schools in
India were the charity schools, asylums and orphanages opened under
the auspices of the Church of England for religious instruction,
training and care of ‘half-caste’ or mixed-race children, the
progeny of Protestant fathers from Indian women. It examines the
influence of the ‘half-caste’ community and the missionaries on
the growing Indian demand for English education and opportunities
for employment. The well-entrenched scenarios on the pre-history of
Hindoo College Calcutta are re-examined in the light of new
evidence discussed here for the first time. The book further
analyses the shifts in the educational policies by the British
colonial administrators and the interventions by the likes of
Trevelyan, Macaulay and Bentinck. Detailed and insightful, this
volume will be of great interest to students and researchers of
history, literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies,
colonial expansion, and South Asian studies.
This book focuses on the career of Sanskrit in British India.
Europe's discovery of Sanskrit was a development of far-reaching
historical significance in terms of intellectual curiosity,
evangelical considerations, colonial administrative requirements,
and political compulsions. The volume critically analyses this
interplay between Sanskrit texts and the imperial and colonial
presence in India. It goes beyond the question of what the
discovery of Sanskrit meant for the West and examines what this
collocation meant for India. The author looks at how the British
needed Sanskrit for dispensation of Hindu civil law; how learned
Pandits were cultivated; and how scholarship was developed
transcending utilitarianism. He also studies the extent to which
Sanskrit in pre- and non-British India had a bearing on Europe and
explores themes such as Jesuit Sanskrit, Hinduism in practice,
scripturism, Aryan Race Theory, seductive orientalism, and the
introduction of archivalism in India. Rich in archival sources,
this unique book will be useful for scholars and researchers of
colonial history, modern Indian history, Indology, linguistics,
history of education, Sanskrit studies, post-colonial studies, and
cultural studies.
This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent
and growth of English education in India. The first schools in
India were the charity schools, asylums and orphanages opened under
the auspices of the Church of England for religious instruction,
training and care of 'half-caste' or mixed-race children, the
progeny of Protestant fathers from Indian women. It examines the
influence of the 'half-caste' community and the missionaries on the
growing Indian demand for English education and opportunities for
employment. The well-entrenched scenarios on the pre-history of
Hindoo College Calcutta are re-examined in the light of new
evidence discussed here for the first time. The book further
analyses the shifts in the educational policies by the British
colonial administrators and the interventions by the likes of
Trevelyan, Macaulay and Bentinck. Detailed and insightful, this
volume will be of great interest to students and researchers of
history, literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies,
colonial expansion, and South Asian studies.
This book focuses on the career of Sanskrit in British India.
Europe's discovery of Sanskrit was a development of far-reaching
historical significance in terms of intellectual curiosity,
evangelical considerations, colonial administrative requirements,
and political compulsions. The volume critically analyses this
interplay between Sanskrit texts and the imperial and colonial
presence in India. It goes beyond the question of what the
discovery of Sanskrit meant for the West and examines what this
collocation meant for India. The author looks at how the British
needed Sanskrit for dispensation of Hindu civil law; how learned
Pandits were cultivated; and how scholarship was developed
transcending utilitarianism. He also studies the extent to which
Sanskrit in pre- and non-British India had a bearing on Europe and
explores themes such as Jesuit Sanskrit, Hinduism in practice,
scripturism, Aryan Race Theory, seductive orientalism, and the
introduction of archivalism in India. Rich in archival sources,
this unique book will be useful for scholars and researchers of
colonial history, modern Indian history, Indology, linguistics,
history of education, Sanskrit studies, post-colonial studies, and
cultural studies.
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