jan 16, 1811 - Minto Minute
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Lord Minto – Governor general of India 1806-1813Concerned about the decay of oriental education and higher learning in India
Minutes of 1811
It is a common remark that science and literature are in a progressive state of decay among the natives' of India….
It is seriously to be lamented distinguished for its love letters in other parts of the that a nation particularly and successful cultivation of empire should have failed to extend literature of the Hindoos, and to aid in Opening to the learned in Europe the repositories of that literature.
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jan 16, 1811
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~ 214 years ago