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influential Hindus and Muslims. To this end, he
established the Calcutta Madrassah school in 1781. (26)

At the same time, however, further educational resources
for Anglo-Indian schools were made available because the
East India Company needed a loyal work force to support
their expansionist policies. (27) The Anglo-Indians who
attended these schools were not being educated to become
the administrators. Therefore, the type of schooling
offered to the Anglo-Indians did not offer access to
selective or higher education.

There were however, Anglo-Indian children whose wealthy
British fathers sent them to England to be educated. Many
of these Anglo-Indian young men, whose fathers were
officials in the Company, after completing their education
in England, returned as covenanted and commissioned
officers in the East India Company.

Some even rose to high positions like Sir Hugh
Massey Wheeler of Mutiny fame; James Kyd the
Master Shipbuilder to the East India Company
and William and John Palmer whose father was
Military Secretary to Warren Hastings and who
founded the great Banking House of Palmer and
Company in Hyderabad.
(28)

The next section describes the wealthy Europeans who became
the benefactors of education. It also discusses the
European Christian missionaries who entered India to
evangelise and educate.

4.1. The Educational Policy of the East India Company,
Entrepreneurial Educationists and Christian Missionaries

Anglo-Indian educational expansion continued throughout the
century. On March 13, 1783, Major General Kirkpatrick

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