with the sanction of the board of control, replied as follows:—
Paras. 230 to 238; also letter. 10th March, 1821, Paras. 153 to 180. State of the Madressa or Mohammedan college at Calcutta, and of the Hindu college at Benares, with measures adopted for their improvement, and establishment of a Hindu college at Calcutta, in lieu of the proposed Hindu college at Nuddea and Tirhoot.“The ends proposed in the institution of the Hindu[1] college, and the same may be affirmed of the Mohammedan, were two: the first, to make a favourable impression, by our encouragement of their literature, upon the minds of the natives; and the second, to promote useful learning. You acknowledge, that if the plan has had any effect of the former kind, it has had none of the latter; and you add, that ‘it must be feared that the discredit attaching to such a failure has gone far to destroy the influence which the liberality of the endowments would otherwise have had.’ “We have from time to time been assured, that these colleges, though they had not till then been useful, were, in consequence of proposed arrangements, just about to become so; and we have received from you a similar prediction on the present occasion.
- ↑ The new Sanskrit college at Calcutta is meant, as is evident from the context, and from the abstract in the margin of the original dispatch.
