AUTONOMY FOR WHOM? 33 The draft Accreditation Council report claims to be fighting against the legacies of colonial rule in education. What it has sought to eliminate, however, are precisely the features which the British in the era of nationalism found objectionable. The Universities Act )f 1904 had reduced the elected teacher element in senates, raised college fees, and extended official in place of university controls over affiliation. There was even a hint of what today would be called 'autonomy* in the special status enjoyed by institutions like Presidency College, only loosely connected to Calcutta University, but of course under government control. Lord Cur^on would have been a happy man today: he has worthy successors.