On December 21, 1789 the Free School Society of Bengal was
started to provide a Free School for the children of poor
Europeans and Anglo-Indians. The Patron was the Governor
General and the Church Wardens were perpetual treasurers.
The Charity school and the Calcutta Free School were
amalgamated in 1800. The record showed that there were 159
children. Anglo-Indian children were still being offered
differentiated education which was dependant upon the rank
of the father in the military or the Company. (30)
There was a difference between the Free School education
offered by the English at the Calcutta Madrassah school,
and the Free School education offered to Anglo-Indians.
The Indians and the Anglo-Indians were both offered
educational opportunities. To all intents and purposes
the schools offered one kind of education.
The Madrassah and the Orphan schools were not comparable.
Anglo-Indians were being educated to fulfil a subordinate
role in the East India Company's work in India. (31) Thus
a form of educational disadvantage had made its appearance
in the late eighteenth century.
In December 1790, John Holmes opened the Madras Academy
and in 1791 the Female Boarding School was opened by Mrs.
Murray, who advertised the school in the "Madras Courier".
Dame schools offered a limited curriculum to Anglo-Indians,
and only existed for a short time.
In 1791, the Benares Sanskrit College was founded. This
College was responsible for preserving and educating
Indians in Hindu law. The move was political because the
English wanted to improve relations with the Indians. (32)
The Anglo-Indians were offered a curriculum which was
different (and inferior) to the curriculum offered in the
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