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Abridgement of the History of India from the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Page 379
by John Clark Marshman - 1905 - 569 pages
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India, Pictorial and Descriptive

William Henry Davenport Adams, Author of The Mediterranean illustrated - India - 1888 - 458 pages
...butter.' The influence of Lord Macaulay was irresistible. The Government of Lord William Bentinck decided that ' the great object of the British Government...literature and science among the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 16

Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1888 - 456 pages
...governor-general in council on 7 March 1835, in which it was laid down that in the higher education the great object of the British government ought to be the promotion of European science and literature among the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purposes...
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Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes and Essays

Sir Monier Monier-Williams - India - 1891 - 382 pages
...the 7th March, 1835, in the second clause of which his Lordship in Council expresses his opinion, ' that the great object of the British Government ought...be the promotion of European literature and science amongst the natives of India.' The concluding paragraph directs that * all the funds at the disposal...
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Abridgment of the History of India from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

John Clark Marshman - India - 1893 - 622 pages
...happened that Mr. Macaulay was not only a member of the Supreme Council, but also president of th& board, and he denounced with irresistible force the...appropriated " to education would be best employed on English educa" tion alone." The cause of English education triumphed, and the language and literature of England...
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Soldiering in India

Robert George Hobbes - India - 1893 - 594 pages
...that the Government institutions for the education of the natives in Oriental lore were a mistake, and that the great object of the British Government ought...literature and science among the natives of India ; \ and gave to the Missionaries generally a * The remark of Gibbon may be remembered : " So sensible were...
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Raja Digambar Mitra, C.S.I., His Life and Career

Bholanauth Chunder - Bengal (India) - 1893 - 390 pages
...proceedings and pleadings ; and on Lord William Bentinck's famous Resolution of 7th March 1835 for " the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India." Digambar was appointed to teach this English class. He owed the appointment to his patron Mr. Sutherland,...
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Macaulay

James Cotter Morison - 1902 - 216 pages
...determined by an elaborate minute which he drew up on the subject, and Lord "William Bentinck decided that "the great object of the British Government ought...literature and science among the natives of India." Macaulay was very unpopular with a portion of the English residents in Calcutta, chiefly it would seem...
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The Governors-general of India: Second series, Volume 2

Henry Morris - Governors - 1896 - 186 pages
...were affirmed in the Resolution of the Governor-General in Council, dated March 7, 183f , which said that "the great object of the British Government ought...promotion of European literature and science among the people of India, and that the funds appropriated to education would be best employed on English education...
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A History of Hindu Civilisation During British Rule: Intellectual condition

Pramatha Nath Bose - Hindu civilization - 1896 - 320 pages
...Resolution of Lord was passed by lord William Bentinck : William Bentinck, "His Lordship is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought...be the promotion of European literature and science amongst the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would...
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British India

Robert Watson Frazer - India - 1896 - 440 pages
...acting under the influence of Lord Macaula'y, announced on the 7th of March that he was " of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought...be the promotion of European literature and science amongst the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education should...
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