The Great Indian Education Debate

Documents Relating to the Orientalist-Anglicist Controversy, 1781-1843

Martin Moir, Lynn Zastoupil

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136828164
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Regional Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

A bitter debate erupted in 1834 between Orientalists and Anglicists over what kind of public education the British should promote in their growing Indian empire. This collection of the main documents pertaining to the controversy (some published for the first time) aims to recover the major British and South Asian voices, broaden our understanding of imperial discourses and recognise the significant role of the colonised in the shaping of colonial knowledge. Bringing together into a single volume documents not easily obtained - long out of print, never before published, or scattered about in sundry books and journals - enables modern readers to judge the relative merits of the various arguments and undermines the common impression that the controversy was simply an exercise in colonial power involving only Europeans.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Note on Sources and Editing Methods
• Introduction
• DOCUMENT ONE
• DOCUMENT TWO
• DOCUMENT THREE
• DOCUMENT FOUR
• DOCUMENT FIVE
• DOCUMENT SIX
• DOCUMENT SEVEN
• DOCUMENT EIGHT
• DOCUMENT NINE
• DOCUMENT TEN
• DOCUMENT ELEVEN
• DOCUMENT TWELVE
• DOCUMENT THIRTEEN
• DOCUMENT FOURTEEN
• DOCUMENT FIFTEEN
• DOCUMENT SIXTEEN
• DOCUMENT SEVENTEEN
• DOCUMENT EIGHTEEN
• DOCUMENT NINETEEN
• DOCUMENT TWENTY
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-ONE
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-TWO
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-THREE
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-FOUR
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-FIVE
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-SIX
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-SEVEN
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-EIGHT
• DOCUMENT TWENTY-NINE
• DOCUMENT THIRTY
• Biographical Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index