Education: British Documents

The Anglicist-Orientalist Debate

• Minute by Governor-General, April 17, 1782

• East India Company Act of 1813, section 43

• Minute by Lord Moira, October 2, 1815

• Address from Rammohan Roy, December 11, 1823

• Minute on Education by Mountstuart Elphinstone, March 1824

• Macaulay's Minute on Education, February 2, 1835

• Note by H.T. Prinsep, February 15, 1835

• Resolution by Lord Bentinck, March 7, 1835

• Extract from H.T. Prinsep's Diary (ca. 1835)

• Minute by H.T. Prinsep, May 20, 1835

Female Education

• Extract from the Report on Public Instruction in Bengal, 1849-1850

• Letter from J.E.D. Bethune to Governor General, March 29, 1850

• Minute by Marquess of Dalhousie, April 1, 1850

• Minute by Sir F. Currie, April 2, 1850

• Minute by J. H. Littler, April 2, 1850

• Minute by J. Lowie, April 3, 1850

• Letter from Government of India to Government of Bengal, April 11, 1850

• Extract of letter of Marquess of Dalhousie, April 16, 1850

• Despatch of Court of Directors to Governor General, September 4, 1850

• Despatch to Court of Directors, February 3, 1854

Other Documents

• Educational Despatch of 1854