Landmarks in the History of Indian Education in British India YEAR | EVENT SIGNIFICANCE / COMMENTS ee - 1813 | East India Company Charter Act ‘+ Marks beginning of colonial investment in Indian education * First acknowledgment of British responsibility to educate her indian subjects * Sets aside annual funds of Rs. 1 lakh for the encouragement of learning paraiso * _ElC territory is opened up to missionary activity 1817. | Calcutta School Book Society * Strishiksha vidhayak (1819), first pamphlet promoting female education 823 General Committee on Publi * Oversees spending of annual educational grant Education (GCPE) _* Battleground for educational debate between Anglicists 1835 | Macaulay's Minute on Education = Marks temporary victory of the Anglicists; declares English higher education to be the sole goal of educational investment in India + Advocates creation of a class of anglicised itermediaries, blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect” - __+ Advocates downward filtration theory (trickle-down effect) _ 1854 | Education Despatch = Marks shift in policy from elite to general education in Indian languages (aka Wood's Despatch) * Establishes new policy of “useful” education and “practical knowledge” for the Indian masses + Beginning of institutionalization of indian primary education '* System of grants-in-aid for vernacular schools + First articulation of importance of female education; leads to opening of first government-run female schools + Establishment of provincial Education Departments L = + Foundation of first Indian universities otIndian Education Commission Reviews progress of primary and secondary education since 1854 1882 . {aka Hunter Commission) * Reveals failure of project of female education + _ Recommends larger grants-in-aid for female education 1902- | indian University Commission + Ends policy of laisser faire for higher educational institutions 4 and Indian Universities Act * Recommends that universities should be teaching institutions, and not merely examining institutions + Gives government large measure of control over universities * Increases university control over private colleges by laying down stricter - __|___ conditions of affiliation and inspection 1910- | Gokhale’s Bill + Named after Krishna Gopal Gokhale, social reformer and Congress leader 2 * Attempt to introduce free and compulsory primary education in India (for age group 6-10) * Was rejected by Government. + leads to expansion of government grants and unprecedented expansion of seeds _ ___primary education on voluntary basis between 1910-17 1913 | Government of India Resolution * introduces reforms in primary education in response to Gokhale’s bill proposes various measures to expand and improve primary and women’s education