DHARAMPAL • COLLECTED WRITINGS

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  1. Ibid, p.105, quoting 34 & 35 Henry VIII, c.l. This statute dating to
    1542-43 A.D., consisting of just one Article after a preamble read, ‘...The
    Bible shall not be read in English in any church. No women or artificers,
    prentices, journeymen, servingmen of the degree of yeomen or under,
    husbandmen, nor labourers, shall read the New Testament in English.
    Nothing shall be taught or maintained contrary to the King’s
    instructions. And if any spiritual person preach, teach, or maintain any
    thing contrary to the King’s instructions or determinations, made or to
    be made, and shall be thereof convict, he shall for his first offence
    recant, for his second abjure and bear a fagot, and for his third shall be
    adjudged an heretic, and be burned and lose all his goods and chattels.’
    The statute was entitled ‘An Act for the Advancement of True Knowledge’.
    This restriction, however, may have completely been lifted by the time
    the ‘authorised version’ of the Bible (King James’s translation) was
    published in England in 1611.

  2. Ibid, p.104, f.n.3, quoting Strype, Cranmer, i.127

  3. Ibid, p.33, f.n.l.

  4. Ibid, p.139

  5. Ibid, p.139

  6. Ibid, p.140

  7. Ibid, p.158

  8. J.W. Adamson: A Short History of Education, Cambridge, 1919,
    p.243.

  9. Ibid, p.243

  10. See Annexure C: Alexander Walker, Note on Indian Education; also
    Ibid, p.246

  11. House of Commons Papers, 1852-53, volume 79, p.718, for the
    number of schools and pupils in them in 1818 and 1851.

  12. Adamson: op.cit., 232

  13. Dobbs, op.cit., pp. 157-8 also f.n.1, p.158.

  14. Adamson : op.cit., p.266

  15. Ibid, p.226

  16. Ibid, p.226

  17. Writing to the second Earl Spencer on 21 August 1787 William Jones
    described a serpentine river ‘which meets the Ganges opposite the
    celebrated University of Brahmans at Navadwipa, or Nuddea, as Rennel
    writes it. This is the third University of which I have been a member.’ The
    Letters of Sir William Jones, by G. Cannon. 2 volumes, 1970, p.754.

  18. The fourth British University, that of London was established in



  19. The above information is abstracted from The Historical Register of
    the University of Oxford 1220-1888, Oxford, 1888, mostly from pp.45-65.

  20. The foregoing four paragraphs are based on information supplied by
    the University of Oxford in November 1980 on request from the author.

  21. For instance according to her doctoral thesis presented in April 1980
    at the Sorbonne, Paris, Gita Dharampal: Etude sur le role des
    missionaries europeens dans la formation premiers des idees sur l’Inde,
    an early eighteenth century manuscript still has several copies extant.
    The manuscript is titled Traite de la Religion des Malabars, and its first
    copy was completed in 1709 by Tessier de Queraly, procurator of the
    Paris Foreign Mission in Pondicherry from 1699 to 1720, nominated
    Apostolic Vicar of Siam in 1727. Copies of this Ms. are to be found in the
    following archives: Paris (Bibliotheque Nationale 3 copies, Bibliotheque
    de L’Arsenal 1 copy, Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve 1 copy, Archives

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