Abridgement of the History of India from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

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Blackwood, 1905 - 569 sider

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Side 379 - 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 education alone.
Side 338 - Hastings repudiated this policy, and in one of his public addresses stated that " it would be treason against British " sentiment to imagine that it ever could be the principle " of this Government to perpetuate ignorance in order to " secure paltry and dishonest advantages over the blindness
Side 378 - Mahomedan literature, you bound yourselves to teach a great deal of what was frivolous, not a little of what was purely mischievous, and a small remainder indeed in which utility was in any way concerned.

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