ANGLO - INDIAN EDUCATION IN TRICHINOPOLY

Anglo – Indian education and 1Anglo – Indian schools have had a chequered career. Indeed, Anglo – Indian schools have traversed many vicissitudes, political and financial. The East India Company seldom, if ever, undertook any responsibility towards Anglo – Indian children. Between 1640 and 1660, when the children2 grew up literally within the sound of shot and shell, it was not necessary for them to have more than a smattering of the 3 Rs. All manner of people were employed as tutors – disabled soldiers, old pensioners, bankrupt merchants or dismissed factors. The first school to be opened was at St. George (Madras), between 1645 and 1650 that was the result of missionary effort.