The Visvabharati Quarterly

Surrrounded by the limitless sky and the wind and the light I am as it were nursed in the arms of the primal mother. [...] Sir Charles Wood the then President of the Board of Coritrol of the East India Company forwarded to India from London a plan for "creating a properly articulated scheme of education from the primary school to the university."2 One immediate result of this Despatch of 1854 was the founding of the three provincial universities Seine scholars credit John Stuart Mill with the actual writing of the [...] The Commission recommended a stricter and more systematic supervision of the colleges by the universities and the imposition 3 1857 the year of their founding was the year of the Sepoy Mutiny. [...] Of this type are Aligarh University ( 1921 ) the ( reconstituted ) Allahabad University ( 1921 ) Annamalai ( 1929 ) Lucknow ( 1921 ) and Roorkee ( 1948 ). summary of the purpose of the Commission as given in the first volume of the Report : "As regards general terms of reference the Commission will be empowered to inquire into the working of the present organization of the University of Calcu [...] Yet the prevalent belittling of the degrees of the non-prestige universities by the graduates of the prestige institutions bad as it is is as nothing compared to the general belittling of Indian degrees and of Indian universities by Indians themselves espcially those who have been abroad.