The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c8.s1.t15.23

c8.s1.t15.23

Although some of the Mahomedan priests can read the portions of the Koran that are appropriated for certain ceremonies, yet Dr Buchanan heard a general complaint from the kazis that few understood a single word of that language and that the greater part had merely learned the passages by rote so as to enable them to perform the ceremonies.