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Vernacular Education in Bengal from 1813 to 1912

1916

The destinations of the pandits and sircars are frequently changed and each of them keeps a register containing the day of the month ; the time of going to and leaving each school ; the names of the boys examined ; the page and place of the book in which they were examined ; and the names of the schoolmasters in their own handwriting— which registers are submitted to the Secretaries of the Soci [...] In assigning an annual sum of one lakh of rupees for the promotion of the study of Oriental Classical Languages the Charter of 18.13 had directed the Government of India to take early measures to acquaint themselves with the existing state of popular education and to report to the Honourable Court of Directors the results of their enquiries. [...] It dealt with such subjects as the system of education best adapted to meet the actual needs of the country ; the preparation of text-books ; the establishment of new colleges and advanced schools ; the improvement and development of existing seminaries ; the course of studies appropriate to each institution ; the foundation of scholarships ; and the introduction of tuition fees. [...] The youth of the upper and middle classes both in the town and country will receive such an education at the head station of the zilla as will make them willing and intelligent auxiliaries to us herafter in extending the same advantages to the rest of their countrymen.` The Place of the la School in the Scheme for General Education. [...] In the great majority of cases he found that there was no school-house and that the children assembled in the house of the teacher or in a family or village temple or in an ouhouse of one of the parents or in the but assigned for the entertainment of travellers or in the corner of a shop or in the portico of a mosque or under a shady tree.
education
Pages
217
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147565
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii Herbert Stark view
Errata
i-i Herbert Stark view
Introductory
1-1 Herbert Stark view
Chapter I from the Despatch of 1813 to the Administration of Lord William Bentinck
1-25 Herbert Stark view
Chapter Mr. Adam’s Survey of Indigenous Elementary Education 1835 to 1838
25-51 Herbert Stark view
Chapter III From the Resolution of Lord William Bentinck to the Abolition of the Committee of General Instruction in 1842
52-59 Herbert Stark view
Chapter IV from the Days of the Council of Education to Lord Stanley’s Education Despatch 1842 to 1859
60-77 Herbert Stark view
Chapter V from the Educational Despatch of 1859 to the Education Commission of 1882
78-105 Herbert Stark view
Chapter VI the Indian Education Commission of 1882
106-126 Herbert Stark view
Chapter VII the Bearing of the Recommendations of the Education Commission on Primary (Vernacular) Education in Bengal
126-148 Herbert Stark view
Chapter VIII the Administration of Education by District Boards
148-166 Herbert Stark view
Chapter IX Educational Reforms and Progress from 1886 to 1912
166-177 Herbert Stark view
Chapter X Schemes for the Instruction of Muhammadans Women and Teachers
178-200 Herbert Stark view
Bibliography
201-202 Herbert Stark view
Index
203-208 Herbert Stark view

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