[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983) › c4.3 # The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.3 The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.3 - **Language:** English ### [c4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c4.3) Prior to 1770, (by which time they had become actual rulers of large areas), the British, on whose writings and reports this book is primarily based,¹ had rather a different set of interests. These interests, as in the subsequent period too, were largely mercantile, technological, or were concerned with comprehending, and evaluating Indian statecraft; and, thereby, extending their influence and dominion in India. Indian religions, philosophies, scholarship and the extent of education—notwithstanding what a few of them may have written on the Parsis, or the Banias of Surat—had scarcely interested them until then. - [Previous: c4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c4.2) - [Next: c4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c4.4) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c4.3) · Pramāṇa