CHAP. VI.
The Establishment of a Seminary at each Zillah Station, a necessary Preliminary to further Operations.—The Preparation of Books in the Vernacular Languages.—A Law of Copyright required.—Native Education in the Madras and Bombay Presidencies.—The Establishment of a comprehensive System of public Instruction for the whole of British India urgently required.—The public Importance of a separate Provision being made for the Prosecution of Researches into ancient Asiatic Literature.
To proceed to practical details; all we have to do is, to follow out the plan which has been steadily pursued since March, 1835. Seminaries have been established at the head stations of about half the Zillahs in the Bengal and Agra presidencies; and the first thing to be done is, to establish similar institutions in the remaining forty Zillahs. At the average rate of 250 rupees per mensem for each seminary, this would require an annual addition to the fund of 120,000 rupees, or about ₤12,000 a-year.[1]
- ↑ As the supply of educated persons increases, schoolmasters will be obtained at lower salaries; and the saving arising from this source, and from the falling in of stipends to students, may be applied to the improvement of the seminaries. This is inde-
