The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s2.8

c5.s2.8

The children are taught to read and write and accounts, and unless belonging to the highest classes, the attainment of Persian and Hindwy and Canarese at the same time is seldom or ever pursued. Indeed, amongst those classes, it is so entirely a private tuition, that any estimate of the numbers of their children learning such languages could not be but erroneous.