During British rule in India, who is credited with diverting the attention of young Indians from Western education to Oriental education?
Annie Besant is credited with turning young Indians back toward Oriental learning and pride in their own cultural heritage.
She founded the Central Hindu College at Banaras, which fed into the Banaras Hindu University.
Macaulay had pushed English and Western education through his 1835 Minute, the opposite of reviving Oriental study.
Lord Dalhousie is associated with administrative and infrastructural reforms rather than an Oriental revival.
Fergusson is linked with an educational institution in Pune but not with this shift toward Oriental education.
Besant also led the Theosophical Society and the Home Rule movement in India.
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