برّصغیر میں ’مفید ‘ علم کے فروغ کا سرنامہ کلکتہ اسکول-بُک سوسائٹی(۱۸۱۷ء): محرّکاتِ قیام و اثرات

Abstract

Along with the emergence of EIC in Bengal, Calcutta had become a stronghold of ‘colonial enlightenment’ in India. Although EIC’s administration didn’t want to take the responsibility of spreading the education at the grassroots. On the other hand, missionaries from various European missions were very enthusiastic and had a keen concern on this point. That’s why missionaries started to set up the parallel education system in Bengal at the end of the 18th century. They established new schools of different kinds but they had to confront the lack of syllabus books. As a consequence of this process, Calcutta School-Book Society was constituted in 1817 to prepare and print the schools’ syllabus.

This article covers the early history of the Calcutta School-Book Society and holds a special study of this process.

Keywords: Calcutta School-Book Society, Missionaries, Colonial Education in India, ‘Useful’ Knowledge, Colonialism.