Selected Passages on Primary Education

* Budget Speech, 1902:Necessity of Mass Education.

* Budget Speech, 1903:Need for Industrial and Educational Advancement.

* India’s Educational Backwardness.

* Budget Speech, 1906.

* Budget Speech, 1907:(IV) Beginning of Free Primary Education.

* Financial Discussion, 1911-12:Fees in Primary Schools.

* Increase in Public Expenditure.

* Spirit of Economy in Place of Spirit of Expenditure.

* Four Reasons for Demand for Inquiry.

* Welby Commission Evidence Gokhale’s Written Evidence:April 12th and 13th, 1897.

* Welby Commission:Written Evidence (p.493) Education.

* Labour in Indian Factories.

* Factory-owner’s Responsibility to Educate Factory Children.