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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2014
      02 June 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511873515
      9781108276641
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511873515
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 234 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History, Education, Education, History, Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History, Education, Education, History, Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
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    Charles Edward Trevelyan (1807–1886) published Education of the People of India in 1838. The work is a rigorous defence of the educational reforms that took place in colonial India during the 1830s, which led to a western-based curriculum replacing traditional Indian learning. The work is a response to the arguments of orientalists such as H. H. Wilson (1786–1860), recently retired from government office in India, but still advocating an orientalist educational policy. In this work Trevelyan puts forward his arguments for the moral and intellectual advantages of English as the principle language of instruction and defends the government's resolution of March 1835 that specified that Indians should be educated by the study of European literature, culture and science. It was one of the most influential Anglicist tracts of the Indian educational debates, and it gives valuable insight into the ideas behind what became standard government educational policy.

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