Education System introduced by Britishers


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Education System introduced by Britishers

New Routines, New Rules: The Company was concerned primarily with higher education. So it allowed the local pathshalas to function without much interference. After 1854 the company decided to improve the system of vernacular education. It felt that this could be done by introducing order within the system, imposing routines, establishing rules, ensuring regular inspections.

There are some steps that East India Company takes to improve the system of vernacular education are as follows:

It appointed a number of government pundits, each in charge of looking after four to five schools. The task of the pundit was to visit the pathshalas and try and improve the standard of teaching. Each guru was asked to submit periodic reports and take classes according to regular timetable. Teaching was now to be based on textbooks and learning was to be tested through a system of annual examination. Students were asked to pay a regular fee, attend regular classes, sit on fixed seats, and obey the new rules of discipline. Pathshalas which accepted the new rules were supported through government grants. Those who were unwilling to work within the new system received no government support. Over time gurus who wanted to retain their independence found it difficult to compete with the government aided and regulated pathshalas.

The new rules and routines had another consequence. In the earlier system children from poor peasant families had been able to go to pathshalas, since the timetable was flexible. The discipline of the new system demanded regular attendance, even during harvest time when children of poor families had to work in the fields. Inability to attend school came to be seen as indiscipline, as evidence of the lack of desire to learn.

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British rulers introduced a new system of education in India chiefly because they wanted to __________________________

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