ABSTRACT
‘The growth of schools and colleges proceeded most rapidly between 1871 and 1882 and was further augmented by the development of the Municipal system, and by the Acts which were passed from 1865 onwards providing for the imposition of local cesses which might be applied to the establishment of schools. Having once put the educational machinery into motion, our rulers have of late been showing signs of great dissatisfaction with the results. As a natural result of this policy, however, the country began to look up for themselves, and systematic efforts were made by them to provide against the loss likely to follow from the partial withdrawal of Government from the field. The italics are everywhere mine and adopted to enable the reader to compare the existing state of things in India with the existing state of things in London or with what in the opinion of the writer in the Nineteenth Century should be the state of things.
