The Education Dispatch of 1854 suggested that the medium of instruction in Indian universities should be

Wood's Despatch of 1854 held that the medium of university instruction should be English.

Persian was the earlier court language but not the Despatch's chosen medium.

Sanskrit was not proposed as the medium of the new universities.

Hindi was not named as the language of higher instruction.

The Despatch did, however, encourage vernaculars for lower stages of learning.

Wood's Despatch is often called the Magna Carta of English education in India.