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The Great Indian Education Debate: Documents Relating to the Orientalist-Anglicist Controversy, 17811843. Edited by LYNN ZASTOUPIL and MARTIN MOIR. London Studies on South Asia, vol. 18. London: CURZON, 1999. Pp. xvi + 357. £45. This is a great book. American historian Lynn Zastoupil and long-time keeper and analyst of India Office records Martin Moir have teamed up to offer a collection of thirty key documents in the great battle that opposed Orientalists and Anglicists in the late eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth with regard to the best mode of education for Indians. These documents extend from the 1781 minute by GovernorGeneral Warren Hastings setting forth the establishment of the CaIc jtta Madrasa for the education of Muslims and a letter of 1792 by East India Company Resident at Banaras Jonathan Duncan proposing to GovernorGeneral Cornwallis the creation of Sanskrit College for Hindus, beyond the resolution of 1835 of GovernorGeneral Lord Bentinck that gave what has often been taken...