Progress of Education in India 1937-47 Decennial Review Vol. 1 (With a foreword and Introductory Survey by Sir John Sargeant. C.I.E., M.A. (Hons), D.Litt., Educational Adviser to the Government of India

Abstract

From Foreword: In issuing to the public of India this survey of what has happened in the field of Education during the ten years preceding 15th August, 1947, I hope I shall not be regarded as evading my responsibility for it, if I lake this early opportunity of making clear how much of the material on which it is based is the work of others. For the things which might have been done but have not been done, I must accept sole responsibility, except in so far as I can unload a share of it on the mills of Government which grind so slowly or on events beyond the control of any of us like the War, which covered a large proportion of the period under review. For what has been accomplished—and I feel that the record under the circumstances is not an unimpressive one—the main credit must go to my colleagues. And by colleagues I do not mean only my associates in the Department—or Ministry, as it now is—of Education. The credit together with my gratitude for the help and co-operation which I have received in such generous measure must also extend to all those administrators and teachers, up and down this vast country, who have borne the main burden and heat of the day and in many cases have faithfully served the cause of Education in the face of difficult and discouraging circumstances. Praise is also due to those responsible for establishing and maintaining those private or semi-private institutions which have opened the doors of opportunity to many students in many branches of knowledge, sometimes with but meagre assistance or encouragement from official sources.