The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.s6.3

c4.s6.3

Statistical comparisons were what Sir Philip Hartog and many others in his time wanted. And these can, to a large extent, settle this debate: some comparison of the 1822-25 Madras school-attending scholars is made here with the Madras Presidency data pertaining to the 1880s and 1890s. Because of incompleteness of the earlier data available from Bengal and Bihar, and also from the Presidency of Bombay, ⁷⁸ such a comparison does not seem possible for these areas, much less for the whole of India.