CHAPTER FOUR
NOTES AND REFERENCES
(1) Statistics taken from the Fourth Quinquennial Report
on the Progress of Education in India. 1897-1902, and the
Fifth Quinquennial Report on the Progress of Education in
India, 1902-1907 London: HMSO
(2) The comment about the unsuitability of the Cambridge
examinations was made on page 85 in a reply by the Anglo-
Indian leader, Sir Henry Gidney (pp.83-7) to Anderson's
paper. Gidney questioned the domination of the educational
syndicate at Cambridge. See, Anderson, G. (1939) Anglo-
Indian Education THE ASIATIC REVIEW NEW SERIES Vol. 35
pp.71-96.
These pages include the article and the replies from Sir
Henry Gidney, Lord Hailey, Sir Campbell Rhodes, Rev. A.E.
Scipio, Mr. Littlehailes, Bishop Chatterton, Lord Goschen.
The Dean of Manchester sent a reply in writing to the
conference. A joint meeting of the Association and the
Overseas League was held at Overseas House on Tuesday,
December 6, 1938,when a paper entitled "Anglo-Indian
Education" was read by Sir George Anderson, C.S.I., C.I.E.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, G.C.V.0. was in the
chair.
See also, Altbach, P.G. (1987) Higher Education in the
Third World London: Sangam Books Ltd. (p.10 and p.214).
Altbach argues that most Third World academic systems
inherited a curriculum heavily weighted toward the
"humanities and organized in the classical European manner.
The assumptions of the latter were that students came from
a highly educated elite." (p.30) see also, Gilbert, I.
(1972) The Indian Academic Profession: The Origins of a
Tradition of Subordination MINERVA 10 (July 1972)
pp.384-411; see also, Sharma, S.R. (1979) American
Influence on Indian Education New Delhi: Raaj Prakashan.
(p.3)
See also, Appendix 6 for an analysis of these examinations.
The earliest papers sent to India were in December 1906.
(3) Graham, J.A. (1934) The Education of the Anglo-Indian
Child JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS November 23
pp.21-46
(4) Abel, E. (1988) The Anglo-Indian Community: Survival
in India Delhi: Chanakya Publications (pp.73-4); see
also, Sixth Quinquennial Report on the Progress of
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