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The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Education in India November 1884

1884

The education of the Muhammadans and the education of the women of India have claims upon the Government far more pressing than those which attach to the instruction of the aboriginal tribes. [...] The question of the admission of children of the lowest castes such as the Pariahs of Madras the Mahars and 1Thers of Bombay and the Chandals of Bengal into the public schools in India has long been a question of great practical difficulty. [...] It treats of the difficulties arising from the social customs of India in regard to child-marriage and the seclusion of the women of the welto-do classes ; the short duration of the school-going age in the case of girls ; the scanty supply of female teachers and the unsuitability of the text-books commonly in use which have been framed for boys rather than for girls. [...] The proper authority to exercise control over the action of the Department is the Government—the Local Government in the first instance and in the event of default on the part of the Local Government the GovernoGeneral in Council; and in the last resort the Secretary of State. [...] The following statistics extracted from the tables appended to the Report of the Commission may be of some interest to the readers of the foregoing article and of its predecessors :- Area in square miles of British Provinces referred to in the Report 859 844.
government politics public policy
Pages
69
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120043
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
The Report of the Indian Education Commission
481-509 Alexr Arbuthnot view
Opening of the Indian Institute at Oxford
509-513 unknown view
Colebrooke’s Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone
513-521 R. M. Macdonald view
The Story of Jewad. A Romance by Ali Aziz Efendi the Cretan. Translated from the Turkish by E. J. W. Gibb Author of Ottoman Poems &c. Wilson and McCormick Glasgow
522-523 Hamid Ali view
The Stri Bodh or Female Instructor Bombay
523-524 unknown view
Madras Branch of the National Indian Association
525-530 unknown view
Social and Philanthropic Institutions of the West
530-534 unknown view
A Dialogue between Two Hindu Widows
534-536 unknown view
Medical Women for India
537-537 unknown view
Indian Intelligence
538-539 unknown view
Personal Intelligence
540-540 unknown view
National Indian Association
i-ii unknown view