Hunter Education Commission (1882)

Wood's Despatch had built a system. By the 1880s, the government wanted to know if it was actually working — and kept asking the same question every generation after that, through a whole line of commissions running from Hunter in 1882 to Kothari in the 1960s. Learn the line, not just one link in it.

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The Hunter Education Commission of 1882 reviewed Wood's Despatch and pushed harder for primary and vernacular education, and this topic tracks the same review-and-reform pattern through the Indian Universities Act, 1904, and the later Sadler, Radhakrishnan and Kothari Commissions.

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