DHARAMPAL • COLLECTED WRITINGS

(Sean Pound) #1

Nationales 1 copy); Chartres (Bibliotheque Municipale 1 copy, formerly
belonging to the Governor Benoit Dumas), London (India Office Libr. 2
copies in Col Mackenzie’s and John Leyden’s collections respectively);
Rome 1 copy (Biblioteca Casanatesa, containing Vatican collection).
Published as La Religion Des Malabars, Immense, 1982.



  1. See the author’s Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth
    Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts. Other India Press,
    2000, for Prof John Playfair’s long article on Indian astronomy, pp.48-93.

  2. Edinburgh University: Dc.177: letters from Adam Ferguson to John
    Macpherson, letter dated 9.4.1775.

  3. Edinburgh: Scottish Record Office: Melville Papers: GD 51/3/617/1-
    2, Prof A. Maconochie to Henry Dundas.

  4. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland: Ms.546, Alex Abercomby
    forwarding a further memorandum from Prof Maconochie to Henry
    Dundas, March 1788. The memorandum was communicated to Lord
    Cornwallis by Henry Dundas on 7.4.1788.

  5. HANSARD: June 22, 1813; columns 832, 833.

  6. HANSARD: June 22 and July 1, 1813: Debate on Clause No.13 of the
    India Charter Bill, titled in HANSARD as ‘Propagation of Christianity in
    India’.

  7. Report on the state of Education in Bengal, 1835. p.6.

  8. House of Commons Papers, 1812-13, volume 7, evidence of Thomas
    Munro, p.127.

  9. House of Commons Papers, 1831-32, volume 9, p.468. Prendergast’s
    statement may be treated with some caution as it was made in the
    context of his stand that any expenditure on the opening of any schools
    by the British was undesirable. As a general impression of a senior
    British official, however, corroborated by similar observations relating to
    other parts of India, its validity appears beyond doubt.

  10. See, for instance, the discussion on relative Indian and British
    agricultural wages in the Edinburgh Review, volume 4, July 1804.

  11. Philip Hartog, Ibid, p.74.

  12. This, however, may have resulted more from a relatively easier Indian
    climate than from any physical and institutional arrangements.

  13. That is those belonging to the Brahman, Kshetriya and Vaisya
    varnas, but excluding the Soodras and castes outside the four varna
    division.

  14. It may fairly be assumed that the term ‘other castes’ used in the
    Madras Presidency survey in the main included those who today are
    categorised amongst the scheduled castes, and many of whom were
    better known as ‘Panchamas’ some 70-80 years ago.

  15. Annexure A (viii)

  16. Given at Annexures B and C. Further, in the Public Despatch to
    Bengal from London dated 3 June 1814, it was observed: ‘The mode of
    instruction that from time immemorial has been practised under these
    masters has received the highest tributes of praise by its adoption in this
    country, under the direction of the Reverend Dr. Bell, formerly chaplain
    at Madras; and it has now become the mode by which education is
    conducted in our national establishments, from a conviction of the
    facility it affords in the acquisition of language by simplifying the process
    of instruction.’

  17. Annexure A (xxii)

  18. Annexure A (xxiii)

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