By Anil Seal

During this quantity Dr Seal analyses the social roots of the relatively stressed stirrings in the direction of political enterprises of the 1870s and Eighties which caused the basis of the Indian nationwide Congress. he's involved not just with the politicians, viceroys and civil servants yet with the social constitution of these elements of India the place political activities have been so much in demand on the time. The emphasis of this paintings is extra upon Indian politics than upon British coverage: the institutions in Bengal and Bombay, the genesis of the Congress and the Muslim breakaway which accentuated the political divisions in India.

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The singular result of the decisions of 1888 was that the government recommended changes that had already taken place, while gratuitously abandoning powers it still enjoyed. In the 1870s private enterprise was already sustaining much of the growth of education in Bengal. 2 By 1882 there were seventeen times as many schools, and seven times as many pupils, in Bengal as there had been in 1871. 4 The government's new policy dramatically stimulated Indian enterprise, as table 3 overleaf shows. By the time that Dufferin left India in 1888, the Indian eagerness for western schooling had made the expansion of the educational system self-generating, so that it could grow with or without government favour.

RDPI (Bombay) 1885-6, subsidiary form no. 2, pp. ) 21 The Emergence of Indian Nationalism 3. Growth of education, public and private, in British India, 1881-igoi TABLE 1881-2 Public English Arts colleges Pupils English secondary schools Pupils igoi-2 Private Private aided unaided 21 11 2,707 2,019 716 562 1,080 72,077 491 31 44,060 r Total 63 5,442 Public 32 4,417 Private Private aided unaided 55 6,925 53 5,806 Total 140 17,148 696 828 2,133 i,573 3,097 149,233 103,077 202,810 116,300 422,187 Source: A.

Many Muslims were ranked in castes. 27 The Emergence of Indian Nationalism so uneven in the country as a whole that religious rivalry cannot be seen either as a necessary or a sufficient factor in generating political activity in India. Some three-quarters of India's population were Hindu—a term loose enough to include peoples of palpably different ethnical origin, separated from each other by language, customs, and religious rites. 1 While they had considerable latitude in their beliefs, the social behaviour of Hindus was strictly regulated.

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