The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c8.s1.t10: Dacca & Jalalpur: (p.85)
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c8.s1.t10
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Dacca & Jalalpur: (p.85)
c8.s1.t10.1
Hamilton speaks of certain schools in the district in which the principles or rather the forms of Hindoo religion and law are taught, but I have not been able to trace any further details respecting them. I find not the remotest reference to Mahomedan schools in a district remarkable for a large proportion of Moslem inhabitants.
c8.s1.t10.2
The public functionaries in 1823 reported to the General Committee that no grants or endowments of any description for the purpose of education were known to exist in the district.