Reports on the State of Education in Bengal (1835-38)/Report 3/Chapter 1

CHAPTER I

Statistics of Education in the District and City of Moorshedabad; in the Districts of Beerbhoom, Burdwan, and Midnapore in Bengal; and in the Districts of South Behar and Tirhoot in Behar.

In this Chapter it will be my object to present a view of the state of instruction in the different localities I have visited. For this purpose, instead of burthening this Report with long and numerous tabular statements which few would read, I have endeavoured to abridge the records that have accumulated on my hands, and to exhibit in a concise narrative form the principal information they contain. I hope in this way to convey a distinct impression of the existing state of native instruction; and the records and the tables which I have prepared or caused to be prepared in the English and native languages may at any time be produced, if required, in support of the conclusions founded on them. Some notice of the origin and progress of the inquiry, of the dates at which the respective localities were visited, and of the plans of investigation adopted, is necessary to show the periods to which the information relates, the advantages or disadvantages under which it was collected, and the extent to which it may be entitled to confidence.

 

 

Section (not listed in original)

• Section I.: Progress of the Inquiry
• Section II.: Plan of Investigation
• Section III.: District of Midnapore
• Section IV.: Number and distribution of schools in the city and district of Moorshedabad; and in the districts of Beerbhoom, Burdwan, South Behar, and Tirhoot
• Section V.: Bengali and Hindi Schools
• Section VI.: General Remarks on the state of Vernacular Instruction
• Section VII.: Sanscrit Schools
• Section VIII.: General Remarks on the state of Sanscrit Instruction
• Section IX.: Persian and Arabic Schools
• Section X.: General Remarks on the State of Persian and Arabic Instruction
• Section XI.: English, Orphans’, Girls’, and Infants’ Schools
• Section XII.: General Remarks on the State of Instruction in the Schools mentioned in the preceding Section
• Section XIII.: Population
• Section XIV.: General Remarks on the Population Returns
• Section XV.: Domestic Instruction
• Section XVI.: General Remarks on the State of Domestic Instruction, including a View of the Amount and Proportion of Instruction amongst the Entire Juvenile Population of the Teachable Age
• Section XVII.: Adult Instruction
• Section XVIII.: General Remarks on the state of Adult Instruction
• Section XIX.: The State of Crime Viewed in connection with the State of Instruction
• Section XX.: Concluding Remarks