...particular languages or sciences which are to be studied. A sum is set apart ' for the revival and promotion of literature and the encouragement of the learned...among the inhabitants of the British territories.' It is argued, or rather taken for granted, that by literature the Parliament can have only meant Arabic...

...the India Bill, directing that a lac of rupees should be appropriated "to the revival and promotion of literature, and the encouragement of the learned...sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories out of any surplus which might remain of the rents, revenues, and profits of our territorial acquisitions."...

...carried to appropriate a lakh of rupees a year from the revenues of India " to the revival and promotion of literature, and the encouragement of the learned...among the inhabitants of the British territories." The question was considered one of such small import, that it was not deemed necessary by the reporters...

...carried to appropriate a lakh of rupees a year from the revenues of India, " to the revival and promotion of literature, and the encouragement of the learned...among the inhabitants of the British territories." The question was considered one of such small import, that it was not deemed necessary by the reporters...

...carefully. That Act provided that a certain sum should be set apart " for the revival and promotion of literature, and the encouragement of the learned...among the inhabitants of the British territories." This passage is punctuated as above in the Act, but were it not so, the wording of it leaves no room...

...year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the eucouragemeDt of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction...sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories of India." The Charter of 1813 was thus the foundation, not only of the ecclesiastical establishment,...

...resolved at that time that a sum of £10,000 a year was to be set apart out of the Indian revenue for " the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction of a knowledge of European sciences among the people." It is noteworthy that two distinct objects—the...

...the order that " a sum of not less than one lakh of rupees (£10,000) in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature,...sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories of India." Weakly, we say, for Charles Grant had, in 1792, sketched in detail, and had continued all...

...1813, when a lakh of rupees was set apart, to use the words of the Act, "for the revival and promotion of literature, and the encouragement of the learned...among the inhabitants of the British territories." The Orientalists laid particular stress on the words italicized. By literature they understood Arabic...

...1813, when a lakh of rupees was set apart, to use the words of the Act, "for the revival and promotion of literature, and the encouragement of the learned...among the inhabitants of the British territories." The Orientalists laid particular stress on the words italicized. By literature they understood Arabic...