The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c10.s3.1
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c10.s3.1
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c10.s3.1
The Punjab was the last of all the Provinces of India to come under the direct influence of the English. The Honourable the East India Company had during a couple of centuries, extended their sphere of influence from the Cape to the Jamuna; but its administrators never thought it worth the trouble to go beyond the Moghul Court. The Moghul Court itself was jealous of any encroachments upon its northern province—the gateway to Kabul—which they still looked upon as their ancestral home.