<P> Mill argued that students seeking an' English education' in order to prosper could simply acquire enough of the requisite practical accomplishments (facility in English etc .) to prosper without bothering to acquire the cultural attitudes; for example it did not follow that at the same time they would also free themselves from superstition . Even if they did the current learned classes of India commanded widespread respect in Indian culture, and that one of the reasons they did so was the lack of practical uses for their learning; they were pursuing learning as an end in itself, rather than as a means to advancement . The same could not reliably said of those seeking an' English education', and therefore it was doubtful how they would be regarded by Indian society and therefore how far they would be able to influence it for the better . It would have been a better policy to continue to conciliate the existing learned classes, and to attempt to introduce European knowledge and disciplines into their studies and thus make them the desired interpreter class . This analysis was acceptable to East India Company's Court of Directors but unacceptable to their political masters (because it effectively endorsed the previous policy of' engraftment') and John Cam Hobhouse insisted on the despatch being redrafted to be a mere holding statement noting the Act but venturing no opinion upon it . </P> <P> By 1839 Lord Auckland had succeeded Bentinck as Governor - General, and Macaulay had returned to England . Auckland contrived to find sufficient funds to support the English Colleges set up by Bentinck's Act without continuing to run down the traditional Oriental colleges . He wrote a Minute (of 24 November 1839) giving effect to this; both Oriental and English colleges were to be adequately funded . The East India Company directors responded with a despatch in 1841 endorsing the twin - track approach and suggesting a third: </P> <P> We forbear at present from expressing an opinion regarding the most efficient mode of communicating and disseminating European Knowledge . Experience does not yet warrant the adoption of any exclusive system . We wish a fair trial to be given to the experiment of engrafting European Knowledge on the studies of the existing learned Classes, encouraged as it will be by giving to the Seminaries in which those studies are prosecuted, the aid of able and efficient European Superintendence . At the same time we authorise you to give all suitable encouragement to translators of European works into the vernacular languages and also to provide for the compilation of a proper series of Vernacular Class books according to the plan which Lord Auckland has proposed . </P> <P> The East India Company also resumed subsidising the publication of Sanscrit and Arabic works, but now by a grant to the Asiatic Society rather than by undertaking publication under their own auspices . </P>

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