Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s3.5

c18.s3.5

and bridges."'¹ Of these educational institutions, very few are known at this distant date, but there is evidence to show that he once confiscated the buildings belonging to the Dutch in Firinghi Mahal (Franks' quarter), a ward of the city of Lucknow, and made them over to a Musalman for a madrasah.² He sent orders to Makramat Khan, Diwan of Gujrat, as he did to other Diwans in his dominions, that all students from the lowest to the highest form, those who read the Mizan as well as those who read the Kashshaf, be given pecuniary help from the State Treasury with the sanction of the professors of colleges and of the Sadr of the place. Orders were also sent that three professors in Ahmadabad, Patan and Surat, and forty-five students in Ahmadabad, be added to the existing number.³ In 1678 he sanctioned a sum of money to repair madrasahs in Gujrat.⁴ It also appears that Akramuddin Khan Sadr built a college in A.D. 1697 in Ahmadabad, at an expense of Rs. 124,000, and asked Aurangzib for pecuniary help. In response, the Emperor gave as jagirs village