Sample Material of Our IAS Mains History Study Kit
Subject: History (Optional)
Topic: Development of Education & the Indian Press
Development of Education
Warren Hastings set up the Calcutta Madrasa in 1781 for the study of Arabic and Persian. The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded by Sir William Jones iii Calcutta in 1784. Jonathan Duncan, the resident at Benares started the Sanskrit College in 1791. Lord Welleslley started the Fort William College m 1800 for the training of Civil Servants, which the court of Directors closed in 1802.
William Carey, a Baptist missionary, set up schools and published Bengali translations of the Bible, thereby laying the foundations of English Education and Bengali prose literature. The Charter Act of 1813, was the first to provide an annual expenditure of one lakh rupees “for the revival and promotion of literature.”
David Hare and Raja Rammohan Roy were instrumental in selling up the Calcutta Hindu College in 1817. Which later developed into the Presidency College.
