UPSC · Prelims and Mains
Modern Indian History
← Company administration and colonial economyColonial education policy and its institutions
- Orientalist institutions
- One lakh clause of 1813, General Committee of Public Instruction 1823, Orientalist-Anglicist debate, Macaulay's Minute and Bentinck's 1835 resolution
- Wood's Despatch: grants-in-aid, universities at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras 1857, vernacular at lower levels and English at higher, teacher training, women's education
- Hunter Commission: primary education to local bodies, secondary literary and vocational streams, encouragement to women's education
- Raleigh Commission 1902 and Indian Universities Act 1904 tightening official control
- Later committees
- Colonial education: downward filtration, restricted mass and female education, scientific and technical neglect, and administrative priorities
