Abstract
This research is a view to explore the different aspects of British company’s
educational policies (1813-54), educational role of Christian missions and
reaction of Muslims in India. This period created Oriental and Anglistics
educational conflicts in the history of India. Indian Muslims showed reaction
against company’s policies through different revivalist and religious movements.
This research is focused on the causes of educational backwardness during this
era. Along different educational issues, company also got the credit of introducing
modern education in India. The results of company’s policies can also be
identified through the movements of the necessity of western education in Indian
Muslims in the shape of Aligarh movement.
Education is a learning process which enables the human beings or societies to
develop their intellect and to promote their way of thinking. Education is also a
source of progress which brings lot of changes in every field of life and
civilizations but on the other hand the post-modern view about the education is “as
a tool of power structure so the post-modern theory of education was implemented
in India during the company rule1
.
The main purpose of education is to get awareness about the new dimensions of
the World and this is also a source of drastic change in the society. There are two
approaches used as the internal and external in the study of history of educational
development. External approach is about the result of political, economics, socio
cultural, philosophical, geographical and psychological factors and internal
approach dealt with the proper system of education, student’s disciplines, teacher’s
methodology of teaching, curriculum and other practices. The external approach
about education can be viewed during East India Company Rule in India. Any
government agency should not focus on single factor working behind the
educational policies. Education should be internal process.
Farheen Altaf , Asif Ali Rizv. (2018) Muslim Response to British East India Company Educational Policies in India (1813-54), Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 31, Issue 2.
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