18 май 1791 г. - Beneras Sanskrit College

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Beneras Hindu College was established by Jonathan Duncan in 1791 to encourage the study of ancient Sanskrit texts that would be useful for the administration of the country.

Nurulah and Naik: The Banaras Sanskrit College owed its establishment to the same political considerations as had operated in the case of the Calcutta Madrassah and was an attempt to conciliate the Hindu population of the newly acquired territories of the Company. It was founded in 1791 by Jonathan Duncan, the Resident at Banaras, who thus explained the considerations that made him undertake the project:
“Two important advantages seemed derivable from such an establishment the first to the British name and nation in its tendency towards endearing our Government to the native Hindus; by our exceeding in our attention towards them and their systems, the care shown even by their own native princes. . . .The second principal advantage that may be derived from this institution will be felt in its effect upon the natives, by preserving and disseminating a knowledge of the Hindu law, and proving a nursery of future doctors and expounders there- of, to assist European judges in the due, regular, and uniform administration of its genuine letter and spirit to the body of the people.


The Calcutta Madrassah and the Banaras Sanskrit College show the beginning of the Orientalist School of Educational Policy. The followers of this thought believed that the Company must not lend any support to missionary enterprise and to proselytization; that it need not make any hasty attempt to teach Western knowledge to the Indian people; that its only duty was to follow in the footsteps of Hindu and Muslim rulers and to encourage classical learning in Sanskrit and Arabic on traditional lines;

References:

1.Naik, J. P., & Nurullah, S. (1974). Students' history of education in India 1800-1973. (6th Edition) MacMillan company of India limited. Ch 2.
2.Selections from the Education Records - Part I (1781-1839), W H Sharp, Government of British India

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