When the ‘Wild’ proved more educated   By Hema on February 19, 2010     When the British conquered Lahore in 1849, Lord Dalhousie, the Governor General, declared that he would educate the “wild illiterate Punjabis” in a new system of Anglo-Vernacular education. When they started the East India Company Board was shocked by what already existed.   The board was amazed to find that the literacy rate in Lahore and its suburbs was over 80 per cent, and this was qual