The British East India Company's education policies…

1828 CE to 1839 CE

The British East India Company's education policies in the 1830s tend to reinforce existing lines of socioeconomic division in society rather than bring general liberation from ignorance and superstition.

Whereas the Hindu English-educated minority spearheads many social and religious reforms either in direct response to government policies or in reaction to them, Muslims as a group had initially failed to do so, a position they now endeavor to reverse.

Western-educated Hindu elites seek to rid Hinduism of its much criticized social evils: idolatry, the caste system. child marriage, and sati.

Religious and social activist Ram Mohan Rov (1772-1833), who founds the Brahmo Samaj (Society of Brahma) in 1828, displays a readiness to synthesize themes taken from Christianity, Deism, and Indian monism, while other individuals in Bombay and Madras initiate  literary and debating societies that give them a forum for open discourse.

The exemplary educational attainments and skillful use of the press by these early reformers enhances the possibility of effecting broad reforms without compromising societal values or religious practices.

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Ram Mohun Roy View →

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Hinduism View → Indian people View → Muslims, Sunni View → Muslims, Shi'a View → British people View → East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies) View → India, East India Company rule in View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View →

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Colonization of Asia, British View → Renaissance, Bengal View →

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Writing View → Faith View → Government View → Scholarship View → Custom and Law View →

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