Oriental- Occidental Controversy

Oriental-Occidental Controversy was an ideological conflict between two groups of people in India during the British colonial rule. The ideological quarrel was related to the organization of modern education India. Britishers started organizing the formal educational system in India only during the first half of the 19th century, though they had reached India during the first part of the 17th century. Their real intention behind their sailing to India was not administrative. They came to India just for trade. It was not a venture of the British Government. A company which had been started in Britain under the title of ‘British East-India Company’, wanted to spread their business, and opened an office and factory in then Madras and now Chennai. They might not have even imagined in their distant dream that they would rule India. However, the dramatic events spread  across two centuries caused for the commencement British colonial rule in India just after the War of Plassy  in 1757. It was a turning point in the history of modern Indian Education.
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Author:
Hathib KK
Assistant professor of Education
​Keyi Sahib Training College