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1. The Home Government and Bentinck's Educational Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2011

K. A. Ballhatchet
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Lecturer in Indian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies
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1 Sharp, H. (ed.), Selections from Educational Records, pt. I (Calcutta, 1920), p. 130Google Scholar.

2 Thomas, F. W., The History and Prospects of British Education in India (Cambridge, 1891), p. 29Google Scholar.

3 Spear, T. G. P., ‘Lord William Bentinck’, Journal of Indian History, xix (1940), pp. 110–11Google Scholar.

4 Spear, T.G.P., ‘Bentinck and Education’, Cambridge Historical Journal, vi, 1 (1938), pp. 78101CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Legislative despatch to India, 14 April 1836, I[ndia] O[fffice] Rec[ord]s, Despatches to India and Bengal, 8, pp. 741–4.

7 General despatch from India, 6 March 1839, I. O. Recs., Despatches from India and Bengal, 31, pp. 189–95, paras. 11–12.

8 General despatch to India, 20 January 1841, J. A. Richey(ed.), Selections from Educational Records, pt. ii (Calcutta, 1922), pp. 3–5.

9 Sharp, loc. cit.

10 Despatch to Bengal, 18 February 1824, Ibid. pp. 91–3.

11 Parl. Papers, 1831–2, ix, p. 56.

12 Public despatch to Bengal, 29 September 1830, paras. 16, 28, I.O. Recs. Public Letters to Bengal, 14, pp. 253–302.

13 I.O. Recs. Home Miscellaneous Series, 723; Revenue, Judicial and Legislative Committee—Miscellaneous Papers, 9.

14 Ibid. Home Misc. 832. The authorship of this despatch is discussed below.

15 J. R. Carnac and J. Loch.

16 I.O. Recs. Register of Drafts and Previous Communications, 1.

17 Paras. 3, 12, 10, 11, 16, 17, 15.

18 Paras. 14, 13, 20, 15.

19 Minute, 24 November 1839, para. 4; Sharp, op. cit. pp. 147–70.

20 British Museum, Add. MSS. 36473, ff. 62–9.

21 Auckland to Hobhouse, 20 June 1836, Add. MSS. 36473, ff. 70 – 8.

22 I.O. Recs. Revenue, Judicial and Legislative Committee—Miscellaneous Papers, 9,

23 Previous Communication: the official term for the original draft submitted to the Board of Control.

24 Hobhouse to Carnac, 12 December 1836, I.O. Recs. Revenue, Judicial and Legislative Committee—Miscellaneous Papers, 9. The letter referred to is that from Auckland to Carnac of 17 June 1836.

25 C. E. Trevelyan to Bentinck, 9 April 1834, Portland MSS. Nottingham University Library.

26 I.O. Recs. Home Misc. 723, p. 3.

27 Hill, S. C., Catalogue of the Home Miscellaneous Series of the India Office Records (London, 1927), p. 464, s.v. 723Google Scholar.

28 I.O. Recs. Home Misc. 832.

29 Ibid. 723.