ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes language policy of independent India and its impact on several aspects of education. There was a new responsibility of the company towards native education, and the other fact was a relaxation of controls over missionary works in India. In addition, there were some educated and liberal Indians like Raja Ram Mohan Roy who wanted European education and English language for Indians. In order to strengthen the government policy of encouraging Western education, Lord Hardinge in 1844 ordered that in public employment preference would be given to those who had studied in an institution imparting English education. In order to avoid the criticism of the missionary institutions, the Council of Education proposed in 1845 the opening of a university in Kolkata. Most of the high schools provided education through the medium of English though several primary schools still offered education through the vernacular medium.
