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મહિલા–વિદ્યાપીઠનું વૈશિષ્ટય.

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Directors of the East India Company to the Governor General in India, on the education of the people of India, dated the 19th July 1854 that: ૧૧૭ "The vernacular literatures of India will be gra- dually enriched by translations of European books or by the original compositions of men whose mines have been imbued with the spirit of European advancement, so that European knowledge may gradually be placed in this manner within the reach of all classes of the people,' I feel convinced that the cultural position of India in every realm of human intellectual activity would not have been as low as it is to-day. "My observation, limited though it is, of the intellectual life of the Japanese nation as a whole, and the study of her past history, have created in my mind the hope-giving belief that we Indians, as far as intellectual attainments are concerned, are certainly superior to them; what we, however, do lack are facilities for the proper development and training of what may be called our national genius. But I also feel that so long as modern thought and modern science on which alone can be based, with any certainty, the material progress of a nation, are allowed to remain, as they are to-day in India, locked up in a foreign language, progressive ideas can never spread with that speed which the present economic position with the other nations of the world demand." “ માતૃભાષાના એધભાષા તરીકેનેા ઉપક્રમ જાપાનમાં એગણીસમી સદીના ઉત્તરામાં કરવામાં આવ્યેા તે હાલ કાઇ કાઇ સ્થળે થાય છે. આ વાત ઉસ્માનિયા યુનિવર્સિટી સ્થાપન થઈ તે ત્યાં બધું શિક્ષણુ ઉર્દુમાં આપવાનું ર્યું તેથી જ શકય થઇ છે, તે તેનું શ્રેય હૈદરાબાદના દૂરદર્શી ને ધારણી નિઝામ સરકારને જ છે. DI