The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c7.10
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c7.10
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c7.10
No people probably appreciate more justly the importance of instruction than the Hindoos; hence instead of offering obstacles or creating opposition to the establishment of schools, they have formed institutions themselves to meet various cases of ignorance and misery. They are not averse to a spirit of enquiry and discussion.⁶ All they wanted was a government that would not check and discourage this spirit.