The British administration in India witnessed significant changes in the cultural life of the people.  The Indians never ignored learning; they had their traditional system of education. One should not, however, suppose that in India there had been no educational system before the coming of the British. As a matter of fact, when the British came to India and were gradually establishing themselves in India, they met such a system. There is no country where the love of learning had so early an origin or has exercised so lasting and powerful an influence”. The trend of ancient education influences the trend of religious thought. Also in India, the practice of Sati and the use of seclusion or Purda were in use. The foremost among the Company officials who attacked these abuses was Charles Grant. Grant had come to India in 1767. As a remedy to all these evils, Grant suggested a “healing principle”, namely, the supersession of the existing religions by Christianity, through the dissemination of the science and literature of Europe, “A key which would at once open a world of new ideas” to them. Grant stated that the ling intercourse between the Indians and the Europeans in India rendered it feasible to use the English language as the medium of instruction. Moreover, he said, knowledge of the English language would immediately place the whole range of European knowledge within their reach, while translation of English books into the Indian languages would take a long time and would be less efficacious. Grant also urged the substitution of English for Persian as the official language because that would induce the Indians to learn it. He urged the establishment of English schools under teachers “of good moral character,” hoping that very soon the public taught in these schools would themselves become the teachers of English to their countrymen.