The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c10.s3.9

c10.s3.9

The Directors point out that ‘the indigenous village schools are a part of the village system and that they have formed a model to schools in England.’ Again they point out ‘this venerable and benevolent institution of the Hindus is represented to have withstood the shock of revolutions, and to its operation is ascribed the general intelligence of the native.’