On the Establishment in Connection with the India Museum and Library of an Indian Institute for Lecture, Enquiry, and Teaching: Its Influence on the Promotion of Oriental Studies in England, on the Progress of Higher Education Among the Natives of
On the Establishment in Connection with the India Museum and Library of an Indian Institute for Lecture, Enquiry, and Teaching: Its Influence on the Promotion of Oriental Studies in England, on the Progress of Higher Education Among the Natives of
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...view. The transfer of the point of gravity from the interior to the seaboard, the change of a large manufacturing population into an agricultural one, the disarmament of the country, the supreme establishment of peace and law, the suppression of barbarous practices, and the development of the means of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...view. The transfer of the point of gravity from the interior to the seaboard, the change of a large manufacturing population into an agricultural one, the disarmament of the country, the supreme establishment of peace and law, the suppression of barbarous practices, and the development of the means of communication, are among the more obvious changes. But while the physical and legal obstacles to a free intercourse between the different parts of the country have been levelled, the English rule has tended to produce greater social and national differences between the different provinces than ever before existed. In consequence of English legislation a vast body of proprietary rights have sprung up everywhere, moulded in almost every province by a different legislation. At present, Bengal, under the permanent settlement, Madras, under the ryotwar settlement, and the Punjaub and North-western Provinces, with then' coparcenary communities, are socially far more different from each other than they were a century ago. Another cause is also operative in the same direction. The discouragement of the old dominant languages, and the great attention paid to the local vernaculars, tends to develop the many distinct nationalities previously submerged by their Persian, Hindustani, or Mahratta speaking conquerors, whilst English is rapidly becoming the "lingua franca" of the country. All these changes, however, are almost On the importance of the establishment of English as the "lingua franca" of India, see a paper by Sir Erskine Perry in vol. IV., p. 289, of the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, entitled, "On the Geographical Distribution of the Principal Languages of India, and the Feasibility of introducing...
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