What is the Orientalist Anglicist Controversy?
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Updated on: November 9th, 2023
The Orientalist Anglicist Controversy arose from disagreements within the British East-India Company about the type of education that native Indians should receive. Though the dispute was eventually settled, it favored the Anglicists.
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Orientalist Anglicist Controversy
The Anglicists were led by Charles Trevelyan and Elphinstone, who thought Western education in India should be imparted using English as a medium of instruction. The Orientalists were led by Dr H.H. Wilson and H.T. Princep, who were ardent supporters of the study of traditional Indian learning and Western science using vernacular languages such as Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian.
- The Orientalist Anglicist debate arose from disagreements within the British East India Company about the type of education that should be provided to local Indians.
- The Anglicists supported English as a medium of instruction, while the Orientalists supported vernacular languages such as Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian.
- The Anglicists were favored by most of the advanced Indians at that time, like Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
- Orientalist Anglicist Controversy was resolved eventually in favor of Anglicists and it became the basis of the English Education Act in 1835 under governor general William Bentinck.
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