It has generally been assumed that the education of any
kind in India, whether in the ancient period, or just at the
beginning of British rule was mainly concerned with the higher
and middle strata of society; and, in case of the Hindoos (who in
the Madras Presidency accounted for over 95% of the whole
population), it was more or less limited to the twice-born.
However, as
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