The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c8.s1.t13: Mymunsing: (p.92)
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c8.s1.t13
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Mymunsing: (p.92)
c8.s1.t13.1
Hamilton states that there are not any regular seminaries in this district for teaching the Mahomedan law, but that there are two or three schools in each pergunnah for instruction in Hindoo learning. The district is divided into nineteen pergunnahs and six tuppas, in all twenty-five local sub-divisions, which will give from 50 to 60 schools of Hindoo learning in the district. The scholars are taught gratuitously, it being deemed disgraceful to receive money for instruction.
c8.s1.t13.2
Indigenous schools for learning imply the existence of indigenous elementary schools, but I find no mention of them in any authority to which I have referred.
c8.s1.t13.3
The alleged non-existence of Mahomedan schools in a district in which the proportion of Mahomedans to Hindoos is as five to two is incredible.