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Educational establishments in India and England.

Catalogue reference: IOR/H/488

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IOR/H/488
Title
Educational establishments in India and England.
Date
1798-1814
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(1) pp. 1-164, 197-371, 375-83, 513-23, Correspondence relative to the foundation and abolition or continuance of the College at Fort William 25th Dec. 1798 to 1811; pp. 19-142, Extract from Marquis Wellesley's Notes on the subject of the foundation of the College. (2) pp. 165-80, Extracts from the Will of Gen. Claude Martin 1st Jan. 1800. (3) pp. 181-96, Directors to Bengal 27th Jan. 1802 directing re-establishment of Dr. J. Borthwick Gilchrist's Seminary, abolition of Marquis Wellesley's College, and enquiry into the utility of the Madrasa at Calcutta and the Hindu College at Benares, with amendments by the Board of Control. (4) pp. 373-4, Account of the Collections of Government Customs and Town Duties from 1797/8 to 1801/2. (5) pp. 385-489, Case for the Court of Directors on the question as to the powers of the Board of Control to compel the Court to send out particular orders, 10th Aug. 1803, and opinions of Spencer Percival, Attorney-General, and Thomas Manners Sutton, Solicitor-General, 30th Aug. and 26th Nov. 1803 and 22nd Feb. 1804, and of George Holford 13th Feb. 1804. See H/487 (10). (6) pp. 491-512, Proposed Draft of a Bill declaratory of the powers of the Board of Control with reference to Marquis Wellesley's College [1804-05]. (7) pp. 525-40, Correspondence between Court and Board (July 1814) relative to the appointment ex officio of the Bishop and Archdeacon of Calcutta as respectively Provost and Vice-Provost of the College. (8) pp. 541-603, 615-53, Minutes by Edward Strachey (July 1814) and S. Davis (8th Aug. 1814) on the utility of the College. (9) pp. 655-68, J. Webbe to N. B. Edmonstone, Madras, 19th June 1802, relative to the study of the languages of India. (10) pp. 671-724, ''Observations on the Oriental Department of the Honourable East India Company's College at Hertford,'' by Dr. Jonathan Scott. (Printed 1806.) (11) pp. 725-42, Report on Hertford College by George Holford 25th July 1805. (12) pp. 743-61, Measures adopted at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay for the education of the Company's Civil Servants, n.d., but later than 1831. (13) pp. 763-70, Education in England of persons destined for the Civil Service of the East India Company, College at Haileybury, founded 1805.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
Former department reference
Q/ISC/34
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Language
English
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1 volume
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Educational establishments in India and England.