In 1854, Charles Wood prepared a despatch on an educational system for India, considered as the Magna Carta of English Education in India which was the first comprehensive plan for the spread of education in India. The recommendations of Wood’s Despatch are as follow The ideals and methods of Wood’s […]
CHAPTER 7 – GROWTH OF PRESS AND EDUCATION IN INDIA
Modern education in India was implemented through various acts. It completely denounced the traditional method of education prevailing in the Indian subcontinent. CHARTER ACT, 1813 The English missionary activists, such as Charles Grant and William Wilberforce, compelled the East India Company to give up its policy of non-intervention in education. […]
In March 1947, the Government of India appointed a Press Enquiry Committee and charged it with the duty of examination of the Press laws in the light of the Fundamental Rights formulated by the Constituent Assembly of India. Among the recommendations of the Committee was the repeal of the Indian […]
The government under Lord Lytton passed the Vernacular Press Act in 1878. It was designed to better control the Vernacular Press and to empower the government with more effective means of punishing and repressing seditious writings. The following regulations were imposed under this act The act came to be nicknamed […]
Some popular press laws and regulations implemented during the Britishers were THE CENSORSHIP OF PRESS ACT, 1799 Lord Wellesley imposed censorship on all newspapers, apprehending a French invasion of India. The Censorship of Press Act of 1799, imposed wartime restrictions on the press. It regulated THE LICENSING REGULATIONS, 1823 The […]
The growth of the press in 19th-century India was influenced by many social currents. The press developed as a representative of the educated sections. It became a crucial tool in the hands of the nationalists. On the other hand, the English education resulted in the emergence of a new section […]