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" Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European 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... "
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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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumes 52-53

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...Governor-General in council, in 1835, and which his successors have since maintained, was restricted to " the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India, through the medium of the English language." The class-books of the government colleges and schools...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 117

1863 - 624 pages
...Council, issued a minute declaring it to be the opinion of the Government that ' its great ' object ought to be the promotion of European literature and ' science among the nations of India.' Still the efforts of the Government were feeble, reaching for the most part only...
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Education in India, an essay

Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke - 1864 - 98 pages
...22nd January last, and the papers referred to in them. " 2nd. His Lordship in council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought...be the promotion of European literature and science amongst the nations of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purposes of education would...
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The History of India, for Use in Schools: Compiled from the Works of ...

John Garrett - India - 1865 - 366 pages
...celebrated minute, dated March 7, thus declared his views : — " His Lordship in Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought...promotion of European literature and science among the nations of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purposes of education would be best employed...
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India Under Dalhousie and Canning

George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - History - 1865 - 164 pages
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Journal, Volumes 22-24

East India Association (London, England) - India - 1931 - 958 pages
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The History of India, from the Earliest Period to the Close of ..., Volume 3

John Clark Marshman - India - 1867 - 516 pages
...resolution of the Governor-General in Council, that " the great object of the British Government III. F ought to be the promotion of European literature and...would be best employed on English education alone." No college or school of oriental learning was, however, to be abolished, while the natives were inclined...
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The Indian missionary manual; or, Hints to young missionaries in India

India - 1870 - 614 pages
...seas of treacle and seas of butter." Soon afterwards Lord William Bentinck issued an order in council, that the great object of the British Government ought...the promotion of European literature and science. As the funds available were so limited, it was thought wise at first to concentrate attention upon...
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History of the Missions of the Free Church of Scotland in India and Africa

Robert Hunter - Missions - 1873 - 420 pages
...taken to altering this state of things when, at the date mentioned above, the Governor-General declared 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 in English education...
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