The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c10.s3.49
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c10.s3.49
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c10.s3.49
The Madras Presidency made an enquiry, 1822-6, and calculated that rather less than one-sixth of the boys of school-going age received education of some sort. Bombay Presidency, 1823-8, estimated it as one in eight, Bengal, 13.2 percent (Adam’s enquiry 1835). William Ward supposed that about one-fifth of the male population of Bengal could read.