The Language Policy of the East India Company and the Asiatic Society of Bengal  

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Pachori, Satya S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 14 no. 2 (1990), page 104-118.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper treats the language policy of the East India Company, derived from the administrative policies of the first governor-general of Bengal, Warren Hastings, and the founding of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the College of Fort William. Hastings set out to govern India by first understanding the Indian people, their language, and their culture. The founding of the society in 1784 and the college in 1800 proved to be a major force in dissemination of Indian vernaculars, which paved the way for the "Evangelical" Christianization of Indians. Later Western scientific and literary education through the medium of English poured cold water on Hastings's plan. The objectives of the two schools of thought - Indianization of the British administration and Westernization of India - were virtually identical, but the ways and means were different. Thus, the ambivalence of partnership and paternalism in the company's policy toward Indian languages would remain a subject of literary and linguistic research.

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