On the Education of the People of India

by Charles Edward Trevelyan

Book Overview

Charles Edward Trevelyan (1807-1886) published Education of the People of India in 1838. The work is a rigorous defence of the educational reforms that took place in colonial India during the 1830s, which led to a western-based curriculum replacing traditional Indian learning. The work is a response to the arguments of orientalists such as H. H. Wilson (1786-1860), recently retired from government office in India, but still advocating an orientalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108276644
• ISBN13: 9781108276641
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"