On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:17 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > My own "Alma Mater" (what a quaint olde Brit imposed Latin expressionne :) ) > is "The Bishop's School" in Poona where my life was closer to the lifestlye > led by Billy Bunter rather than Acharya Pathshala where many of my "native" > peers studied in "the vernacular". Bishops was started in 1864 under the aegis > of the Anglican Bishop of Bombay specifically to educate the children of > British army officers.
Doc ... I am also a Bishops School Poona alma mater. Fondly remember the "flat" and the meticulous monitoring of nail, dental and follicular hygiene ... During my time many of the anglo indian teachers (who were in the majority among the faculty) began emigrating to Argentina and Australia ...I wonder how many of them are left now in the faculty. Ashok > > 1864 was in an eventful and tense era. The British crown had taken control of > India from the East India company about 15 years earlier. Shortly after that > was the military uprising against British rule that is was called the "Mutiny > of 1857" but is now referred to as India's first war of independence. The > Bishop's school was started soon after that and was an unashamedly British > style "public" school. It is worth recalling that around 1854, the British > policy for education in India decided that a class of Indians who were British > in mind and heart would have to be created in order that they would appreciate > the good things that Britain had to offer so that India could then serve as a > vast market for goods made by a rapidly industrializing Britain. This is > absolutely clear from a speech made by Macaulay around 1854 or so. But the > history of that policy goes back earlier and can be gleaned from this link. >
