CONTENTS: Preface, SECTION A: Fluctuating Company Stance on Indigenous Education-To Applaud or Uproot?: 1. Introduction, 2. Early Beginnings, 3. Some Accounts of Indigenous Education, 4. An Evangelical Blueprint for India- Anglicization and Christianization, 5. Initial Endorsement of Indigenous Education Systems by East India Company, 6. Reversal of 1824 – Enter James Mill, 7. Bentinck and Macaulay-A Calculated Turn, 8. Declaration of Official Policy in Favour of English, 9. The Mills and the Education Debate, 9. Wood’s Education Despatch-A Triumph of Missionaries and Anglicists, SECTION B: Missionaries Enter Field of Education: 11. Early Company Policy on Missionaries, 12. Education as a Tool of Proselytization, SECTION C: Reports from the Provinces: 13. Madras Presidency Endorsed Vernacular Education, 14. Bombay Presidency Approved Vernacular Education, 15. William Adam’s Recommendations for Vernacular Education in Bengal Presidency, 16. North-Western Provinces and the Punjab-Growing Support for Christianization, SECTION D: The Persian/Urdu/Hindi Controversy: 17. Urdu-An Artificial Construct, 18. Hindi versus Persian/Urdu, Appendices: Appendix 1: Report of A.D. Campbell, Appendix 2: Report of T.B. Jervis, Appendix 3: Thomas B. Macaulay’s Minute on Education, Appendix 4: Memorandum of Raja Shiv Prasad, Appendix 5: Memorial of 1873, Appendix 6: G.W. Leitner’s Report on Indigenous Education in the Panjab, References, Index.