Education Movement of Debendranath Tagore and Raja Rammohun Roy: in the Light of Renaissance & Modernization in the 19th Century

In the pre-British era, a simple, comfortable education system was prevalent in India. Even when English rule was established in India in the early nineteenth century, that education system continued in the neglected rural areas of India. Indian traditional domestic education system was very well but the foreign rulers did not know that news. And they were not aware of its extent and effectiveness. Among the neo-pagan rulers, those who had acquired knowledge of the Western education system of their country considered this system of education useless, bizarre, and lifeless. They thought that all Indians were ignorant, uneducated, and uncivilized. Based on this narrow-mindedness, they decided that the ineffective education system should be eradicated and the education system of schools, colleges, and universities should be introduced into the Western system. And against that, a new movement was started in the education field in Bengali society.