The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c8.s1.t9.15

c8.s1.t9.15

Little is said by any of the authorities to which I have referred of the schools of learning in this district beyond the town of Nuddea; but there can be no doubt that such exist at *Santipore, Kishnaghur,* and other places within the district. Mr Ward mentions transiently that, at *Koomaru Hutta* and *Bhatpara,* villages in this district, there are perhaps seven or eight such schools. At *Santipore* there was formerly a small Government endowment which appears to be at present in abeyance. In 1824, an application was made through the Collector of Nuddea to the Board of Revenue by Devi Prasad Nyayu Vachaspati Bhattacharyya, as the brother of Kali Prasad Tarkasiddhanta Bhattacharyya, who had died in the preceding year, for an annual allowance or pension of sicca rupees 156-11-10, in consideration to his keeping a seminary in the town of Santipore.