June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
47h 15m
English
Nasir Tyabji*
Although the three Presidency Universities in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras were established in 1857, scientific education, let alone technological education, formed a marginal part of the higher educational curriculum. For the next 60 years, until the end of World War I, this bias towards a general arts programme was viewed by nationalists as deliberately designed to deflect the thrust of educational aspirations towards jobs in the clerical base of the administration. From the time of the 1882 Education Commission in particular, nationalists demanded greater attention on technical education, both ...
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