Measures Pindari War Pindaris were freebooters composed of both Muslim and Hindu bands. The Subsidiary Alliance of the Company had led to the disbandment of thousands of soldiers and most The Charter of emphasized the development of the country primarily in the interest of its inhabitants. William Bentinck, appointed the first Governor General of united India reformed the society by suppressing thuggee (robbery and murder committed by the thugs in accordance with their ritual), abolishing sati and introducing English as the medium of instruction in schools and colleges. This he thought would facilitate Indianization of the services.
Bentinck founded the Calcutta Medical College in March . The students of this college were sent to London in to complete their studies. Ten years after the establishment of the Calcutta Medical College, the Grant Medical College in Bombay was founded in . In the Thomason Engineering College at Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) came into existence.
In a school for girls was founded in Calcutta. Macaulay came to India as a law member in . He was appointed President of the Board of Education. He had a poor opinion of indigenous learning.
Macaulay recommended and government accepted to make English the literary and official language of India. Dalhousie showed keen interest in education. He approved of the system of vernacular education designed by James Thomason, Lieutenant Governor of the North- Western Provinces ( - ). The Educational Dispatch of Charles Wood ( ) outlined a Macaulay: Macaulay found nothing good in Indian literature, philosophy and medicine.
Macaulay, in his minute of wrote: ‘I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic. But I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanskrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
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