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They also had a Sanskrit University in Paminasi, 

 literally a place where they taught Sanskrit science and 

 Sanskrit everything. There were something like 800 

 affiliated colleges of the Sanskrit University throughout 

 India. The Indians have this curious system of affiliated 

 colleges where the university is the examining body. It 

 doesn't do any of the teaching, but the teaching is done in 

 the college and then the examinations are set by the faculty 

 of the university. 



There are several different kinds of universities in 

 India. This examining-body kind is one, modeled in a funny 

 Indian sort of way after the University of London, which was 

 set up as an examining body for schools in India, the 

 colleges in India. Then there are places like the 

 University of Calcutta, which had a famous institution 

 called Presidency College. It was a first-rate teaching 

 institution. 



[There are] places like the University of Delhi, which 

 are also quite good universities, which have both affiliated 

 colleges and a central teaching campus with colleges that 

 are really part of the university. They used to say that 

 these affiliated colleges, which formed sort of a ring 

 around Delhi, really protected the university from being 

 overcrowded and overrun by all sorts of mediocre types. So 

 only the best students got to go to the university, but 

 everybody could go to affiliated college. 



Then there was the University of the Punjab in 

 Ludhiare which was quite good, I^ thought. [And] the 

 University of Bombay, which had many colleges. 



Then, they were also starting agricultural colleges at 

 that time, several agricultural universities in different 

 parts of the country, after the model of American land-grant 

 colleges. Some of these were quite good. The one at in the 

 Punjab was run by and for Sikhs, the best farmers in India 

 and among the best farmers in the world. This was a first- 

 rate agricultural university. 



So you have different kinds of universities, plus 

 institutes of technology, plus the agricultural 

 universities, plus medical schools. 



We were not responsible for the medical schools. They 

 were under a different ministry. Our ministry was the 

 Ministry of Education, so we had responsibility for all the 

 things that the University Grants Commission was responsible 

 for, plus education at primary and secondary levels. The 

 whole works. What we would do is go to different states and 

 look at their whole educational system. 



Sharp: Within each state? 



Revelle: Yes. Because education was what they called a state 



subject, as it is in the United States (either a state or a 

 city subject), but basically a state subject in India. 



I had several impressions. One of the impressions was 



