Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s8.8
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s8.8
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c11.s8.8
However, his condemnations of Indian culture and Sanskrit literature generated another kind of debate. Lord Bentinck appointed William Adam for investigating the state of education in Bengal. Adam in his reports voiced the concerns of traditional *paṇḍits*; he also collected the signatures of several *paṇḍits* from Calcutta Sanskrit College, as a confirmation of the *vyavasthā* (opinion) on the continuance of the employment of Sanskrit for translating Western knowledge texts in it.⁶⁸