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What was the Anglicisit – Orientalist controversy about? How was it resolved and with what results?

  • UPSC 1990
  • Social and Cultural Developments

The Anglicist–Orientalist controversy was a dispute within colonial officialdom over how the state's education funds should be spent and, ultimately, over what kind of colonial subject British India should produce.

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