A History of Hindu Civilisation During British Rule, Volume 3W. Neman, 1896 - Civilization, Hindu |
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administration Agra Akbar amount ancient annual Aryan attended Benares Bengal Bengal Presidency Bengali literature Bidyapati Bombay Presidency Brahmagupta Brahmans British Rule caste caste-system cent century character Charaka Civil classes College of Calcutta Committee condition Congress Council departments despatch districts drain educa Engineering England English education equality established Etawah Eurasians Europe European existence extent favourable foreign girls Government of India higher Hindu civilisation Hindu intellect Hindu literature hitherto important increase Indian railways indigenous industrial influence institutions instruction intellectual knowledge labour language learning less liberal literary Lord William Bentinck Madras Madras Presidency Mahomedan Conquest manufactures Máráthi material Medical College medicine ment modern civilisation nations natives of India natural science officers period political population present day Presidency College progress Punjab pupils railways Rigveda rupees Sanskrit College says scholars schools scientific Service slokas subjects Susruta tion Trevelyan Upanishads Vedic vernacular education vernacular literatures West
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Page 173 - We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern ; a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.
Page 174 - 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.
Page 166 - We find that the Government are establishing a Sanskrit school under Hindu Pundits to impart such knowledge as is already current in India. This seminary (similar in character to those which existed in Europe before the time of Lord Bacon) can only be expected to load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little or no practical use to the possessors or to society.
Page 171 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India...
Page 32 - We can only say, folly is an illness for foreign. which there is no medicine, and the Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs. They are haughty, foolishly vain, self-conceited, and stolid. They are by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from men of another caste among their own people, still much more, of course, from...
Page 48 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to office in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified by their education, ability, and integrity duly to discharge.
Page 46 - The meaning of the enactment we take to be that there shall be no governing caste in British India, that, •whatever other tests of qualification may be adopted, distinctions of race or religion shall not be of the number...
Page ix - The day will come, and perhaps is not far distant, when the European observer will look round to see the globe girdled with a continuous zone of the black and yellow races, no longer too weak for aggression or under tutelage, but independent, or practically so, in government, monopolising the trade of their own regions, and circumscribing the industry of the European...
Page 174 - But his Lordship in council decidedly objects to the practice which has hitherto prevailed of supporting the students during the period of their education. He conceives that the only effect of such a system can be to give artificial encouragement to branches of learning 'which, in the natural course of things, would be superseded by more useful studies ; and he directs that no stipend shall be given to any student...
Page 160 - The number of the learned is not only diminished, but the circle of learning, even among those who still devote themselves to it, appears to be considerably contracted. The abstract sciences are abandoned, polite literature neglected, and no branch of learning cultivated but what is connected with the peculiar religious doctrines of the people.