British Educational Activities in North India: 1840 to 1841
Sumeet Tanwar
Publication: Volume 1 Issue 2
Abstract
This article proposes to inquire some aspects of the educational activities undertaken at schools located in North-western and Central provinces (modern day Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh) between 1840-1841, when the new scheme for vernacular education was launched. The new scheme, launched when education through the medium of English failed to attain any considerable success, was meant to impart European scientific knowledge among native students at a larger scale and hence the process of translating English texts into the vernacular was set in motion.
Keywords: British Educational Education, English education, Vernacular education, Translation.
Sumeet Tanwar (tsumeet84@yahoo.com) is pursuing his Ph.D. from Department of English, University of Delhi. He is currently working on a dissertation entitled, “Bharatendu Mandal: An Enquiry into the Socioreligious and Linguistic Transformation in 19th century North India.”