The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s14.12
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s14.12
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c5.s14.12
8. No school or college appears to have been ever built separately for that purpose, or to have been endowed by the public. Two years ago Vencatanarsimmah Appahrow, the zemindar at Ellore, caused a charity school for Gentoo scholars to be opened in that town by a school master on a fixed monthly stipend of 3 M. pagodas. The scholars instructed therein are 33 in number, but they in general subsist upon charity.