Danger of Little Knowledge in India

Northland Age, Volume 27, Issue 42, 28 October 1927, Page 2

Danger of Little Knowledge in India

Universities Starved. Only six or seven people out of every hundred in India can read or write. But Sir Chimanlal Setalvad, K.C.1.E., the great Indian scholar and Vice-Chancellor ot the University of Bombay, who has been visiting England, is less perturbed about that than about the financially starved state of the Indian Universities. “There are circumstances,” Sir Chimanal said to an interviewer in London recently, "in which the ability to read and write is of little use, and even of greater harm than illiteracy would be.” At the time of the Mutiny, he explained, the statesmen governing the country encouraged education by setting up most of the universities which now exist in India, not without appreciating the danger of Indian students becoming reactionary te politics. There have been reactionary movements,” continued Sir Chimanlal, “but there has been no i progress in understanding, and -f the risk their policy entailed has -..Deep proved worth while. 1 hen —followed lesser men, not so farseeing, who forsook the universities and urged that efforts should be primarily devoted to primary e iucation. Now the state of affairs is bad, as there are many learning to read and write —wh ch is not of great value to sonn;— while higher education is being neglected.”

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