The Calcutta Madrasa and the Linguistic Problem of Muslim Education in Bengal
by Adnan Mahmud In 1919, the Calcutta University Commission (the Sadler Commission) paused in the middle of its sprawling survey of Bengali higher education to issue a quietly devastating verdict on a decision made sixty-two years earlier. Had the Calcutta Madrasa been incorporated into the new Calcutta University at its founding in 1857, the Commission…