HENRY HARDINGE

(Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge)


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Henry Hardinge

The studies in the Mohammedan schools and colleges have hitherto been confined to Arabic, the Koran, and abstruse studies relating to their religion, having always shown a marked aversion to English literature.
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Many of the difficulties been Islam and the West can be traced to a huge gulf in what constitutes a proper education. In this case, the Indian Governor General was explaining to Queen Victoria that while the Hindus in India were getting very well educated and were qualified for many government administrative positions, the Muslims were not. See {630719}. Even in modern times most colleges and universities in Islamic nations are highly focused on religion to the expense of mathematics, the sciences, and non Islamic literature.

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Henry Hardinge
  • Born: March 30, 1785
  • Died: September 24, 1856
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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsula War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington's ministry. After a tour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1830 he became Secretary at War again in Sir Robert Peel's cabinet. He went on to be Governor-General of India at the time of the First Anglo-Sikh War and then Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War.