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The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India April 1882

1882

But the prejudices of certain of the senior Mahomedans of the community against introducing the modern system of education among the females and their close adherence to the long established customs of the country are as indeed they cannot help being a very great impediment in the way of any reform in this direction and those Mahomedans who are modern in their ideas for reform can no more break [...] Such then being the facts of the case I sincerely hope that from what I aabout to say to you to-night you will glean so much as may seem useful for the purpose of setting in motion such machinery as may have the effect of introducing education among the ladies of the Mahomeden zenana ; and if you succeed in this you will earn the commendation which will be your due for the performance of a g [...] from the fact that Mahomedan ladies of the present day compared with those of some 150 or 200 years back can boast of so little education that the question is always referred back to that period when under the Mahomedan Government the Persian and Urdoo were the prevailing languages in the country as the time when the women were most highly cultivated and it is partly due to the fact that th [...] I will now attempt to explain to you the cause of this eductional decadence in the Mahomedan zenana ; but before I do so I must remind you that previously to the establishment of the English Government in India the supreme power was in the hands of the Mahomedans among whom three distinct languages were prevalent viz. [...] C. N. BANERJEE Deputy Magistrate Bengal said :- I have much pleasure in rising to move the resolution which has been entrusted to me : " That the work of the National Indian Association in England and in India deserves the cordial support of all who desire the social and educational progress of India and that those present pledge themselves to promote the objects of the Association." After wha
government politics public policy
Pages
72
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120043
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Annual Meeting of the National Indian Association
185-210 unknown view
The Visit of Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales to Singapore
210-213 Arthur Knight view
The Second Daughter-in-Law; or the History of Pramada the Wife of the Second Son. A Tale
213-222 Shiva Sastri view
Total Abstinence in India
222-224 unknown view
The Bengali Ladies’ Association
224-225 M.S.K. view
Bengal Branch of the National Indian Association
225-229 unknown view
The Bar Examination in Roman Law and the Institutes of Justinian
229-233 Hamid Ali view
A Native View of Lady Doctors for India
233-240 Losain view
Education in Malabar
240-242 unknown view
Indian Intelligence
243-243 unknown view
Personal Intelligence
244-244 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view