Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s4.8

c12.s4.8

The pupils sit cross-legged on a bench or on the floor. They write on paper with reed pens, or with tubes of some other kind. The paper mostly imported from China is not so good as that of Europe. It is smooth, very thin and easily tears.
The *Qur'ān*, he further informs us, " is chiefly read by the Musalmāns who also study the Persian language. Ṭīpū Ṣāhib, the last sovereign of Mysore, understood several oriental languages, and possessed a *library* enriched with all sorts of European and Eastern works."⁴