LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 7 July 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

HOME PAGE

Click Here for Back Issues of Language in India - From 2001

BOOKS FOR YOU TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FREE!

REFERENCE MATERIAL

BACK ISSUES

  • E-mail your articles and book-length reports in Microsoft Word to languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.

  • PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES GIVEN IN HOME PAGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LIST OF CONTENTS.

  • Your articles and book-length reports should be written following the APA, MLA, LSA, or IJDL Stylesheet.

  • The Editorial Board has the right to accept, reject, or suggest modifications to the articles submitted for publication, and to make suitable stylistic adjustments. High quality, academic integrity, ethics and morals are expected from the authors and discussants.

Copyright © 2012
M. S. Thirumalai
Custom Search

British India and Pre-1970 Public Education in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman

C. J. Denman, M.Ed, Ed.D. Scholar

British India and Pre-1970 Public Education in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman

This paper explores the history of government-funded education in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman prior to the beginning of the country’s modern era in 1970. In doing so, it offers a brief history of British attempts to assert control across the sultanate, before presenting an account of the plans put in place by the British supervised and funded Developmental Department to build a country-wide education system following its founding in the late 1950s. Similarities between education developments sponsored by the department and those occurring on the subcontinent during British colonial rule in previous generations are explored.

Keywords: Muscat and Oman; British India; education; developmental department

Introduction

The issuing of an order in support of the recommendations of the Macaulay Minute on Education in India by Governor-General William Bentinck on March 7, 1835, significantly altered the course and development of formal education in British India (Thirumalai, 2003). The major tenets of Macaulay’s Minute included that, while vernacular education should be preserved for the masses, “higher branches” of knowledge, such as science, philosophy and literature, should be taught in the medium of English. Moreover, only a select group of Indian students were to be the beneficiaries of English-medium education, although the Western knowledge to which they had privileged access would eventually filter down through the various social strata of Indian society to their countrymen (Rashtriya, 2008). However, perhaps more importantly than this educated class’s position as conduit of enlightened learning and “advanced” knowledge in Indian society, was their ability to act as intermediaries between the foreign rulers and the ruled.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

C. J. Denman, M.Ed., Ed.D. Scholar
Sultan Qaboos University
PO Box 43, PC 123
Al-Khoud
Sultanate of Oman
denman@squ.edu.om
Custom Search
  • Click Here to Go to Creative Writing Section

  • Send your articles
    as an attachment
    to your e-mail to
    languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.
  • Please ensure that your name, academic degrees, institutional affiliation and institutional address, and your e-mail address are all given in the first page of your article. Also include a declaration that your article or work submitted for publication in LANGUAGE IN INDIA is an original work by you and that you have duly acknowledged the work or works of others you used in writing your articles, etc. Remember that by maintaining academic integrity we not only do the right thing but also help the growth, development and recognition of Indian/South Asian scholarship.