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.
- 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. - Edinburgh University: Dc.177: letters from Adam Ferguson to John
Macpherson, letter dated 9.4.1775. - Edinburgh: Scottish Record Office: Melville Papers: GD 51/3/617/1-
2, Prof A. Maconochie to Henry Dundas. - 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. - HANSARD: June 22, 1813; columns 832, 833.
- 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’. - Report on the state of Education in Bengal, 1835. p.6.
- House of Commons Papers, 1812-13, volume 7, evidence of Thomas
Munro, p.127. - 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. - See, for instance, the discussion on relative Indian and British
agricultural wages in the Edinburgh Review, volume 4, July 1804. - Philip Hartog, Ibid, p.74.
- This, however, may have resulted more from a relatively easier Indian
climate than from any physical and institutional arrangements. - That is those belonging to the Brahman, Kshetriya and Vaisya
varnas, but excluding the Soodras and castes outside the four varna
division. - 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. - Annexure A (viii)
- 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.’ - Annexure A (xxii)
- Annexure A (xxiii)