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Answer the following question:
Why did the English East India Company feel the need for educational; reforms?
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Solution
The first objective of education in India was to form a class of interpreters between the British rulers and the millions of Indians they governed. The second objective was to create a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour but British in taste, opinion, morals, and intellect. The third objective was to obtain a cheap supply of clerks for holding subordinate posts in the administration and British business concerns.
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