Title: Punjabi Missionary Education: A Reluctant Collaboration 1860-1877Submitted by: Tim Allender, School of Social, Policy and Curriculum Studies, The University of Sydney, NSW , AustraliaIn the Punjab grant-in-aid meant the missions. The Despatch of 1854 had stressed the importance of government surrendering its place on the education field whenever 'private effort' was available to supplant it. Yet, indigenous schools were ignored as suitable candidates for such a transference of authority. This left only the missions. Grant-in-aid was principally a device of government missionary control, yet the rules regarding schools remained static and poorly applied. The tie with government at Lahore remained loose as sympathetic Lieutenant Governors refused to use anything except administrative fiat to rein in excesses. My paper will examine two competing missions at the time. They were run by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Church Mission Society. Return to Abstracts menuCarol Burnett Phone: 61 - 3 - 9349 1899 Email: c.burnett@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
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