The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.s4.1

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The undertaking of the survey was welcomed by London in May 1825, when it wrote to Madras: 'We think great credit is due to Sir Thomas Munro for having originated the idea of this enquiry.’ However, after receipt of the survey information and papers, the reply Madras received ridiculed and altogether dismissed what had been reported to be functioning. In the public despatch of 16 April 1828, Madras was told that ‘the information sent’, while lacking in certain respects, was ‘yet sufficiently complete to show, that in providing the means of a better education for the natives, little aid is to be expected from the instruments of education which already exist.’