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1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
Number of
students.
5
9
5
1
4
7
8
103. The “ College Class,” which was instituted in 1863, for the purpose of educating
up to the standard of the First Examination in Arts such of the pupils of the Anglo-Persian
Department as had passed the University Entrance Exami-
nation, and wished to continue their studies at the Madrassah,
may be said to have been a complete failure. The numbers
composing the class since 1863 are shewn in the margin.
Most of these resigned after a short experience of the system.
There are now only two students in the College Class. No
student joined the “ College” Department this year.
104. Previous to the affiliation (in 1867) of the Madrassah to the Calcutta University,
we might naturally have expected the number in the class to be small ; but even now students
shew no disposition to join. Those who have joined were, it appears, induced to do so partly
by the smallness of the fees for the education proposed to be afforded, and partly by the facility
offered for learning Arabic.
105. The fee in the College Department is Bl; but besides this, as all students entering
the Department are obliged also to join the Arabic Department, they pay 8 annas per mensem.
106. They read Arabic from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m., and at 1-30 go to Mr. Blochmann for
instruction in English ; by which time they are, that gentleman states, a good deal exhausted
by their previous work. Mr. Blochmann further states that so much of his time being taken
up with the duties of the Anglo-Persian Department, he really has not leisure to give them the
necessary instruction. In addition to the Arabic of the Arabic Department, these students
have also to read the University standard in Arabic under the Head Moul vie of the Anglo-
Persian Department. They have no rest throughout the week, having to come on Sunday
to the Arabic Department, and on Friday, when that Department is closed, for instruction, in
English. No student has yet gone up to the First Examination in Arts. It is, we think,
impossible to expect students who have compulsorily to devote so much time to Arabic, to be
able to keep pace in a difficult English course with others who have only, in Arabic, to attain
to the University standard. If joining the Arabic Department had been left optional, the ex-
periment of a College Class might, we are of opinion, have had a better chance of success.
108. Attached to the institution are two officers, the “ Moonshee ” and the “ Besident
Moonshee,” each on Bs. 50, regarding whom we are asked to report. They are under the
direct orders of the Principal.
109. The “ Moonshee, ” Moulvie Golam Kadir (a student of the old Madrassah as far
back as 1822), was appointed to that post in 1856. In 1846, he informs us, he was appointed
a teacher of Oriental languages in the Martiniere at Lucknow, but that appointment was after
some years abolished. His duties are to take at 10 a. m. the attendance of the Professors in
the Arabic Department, to receive from the Professors at 10-15 a. m. the register of attendance
of students, to make a daily abstract of the registers, and send the registers to the Principal;
to receive the applications for short leave from the Arabic Professors, and forward them to the
Principal ; to take charge of any class in the unforeseen absence of its Professor, to take charge
of the order book of the Principal, and to translate the Principal's orders into Persian • to assist
in supervising the annual examination, to take the attendance of the resident students in their
rooms at 9 p. M. ; to help, on occasions, to examine the answers of the students in the Scholar-
ship Examinations • to collect the fees of the Arabic Department, and make them over to the
Head Clerk, to test the “ Sharafutnamahs ” or certificates of respectability. (See paragraph 15.)
110. He lives in the College, having one so-called office-room upstairs, and one residence
room on the ground floor. The second room was given to him, by Colonel Lees, to accommo-
date some of his family who live with him, otherwise, he admits, one room would be sufficient.
He is a worthy old man of seventy-six, and a thorough believer in the advantage of an Eng-
lish education; but is now quite past work, and should, in our opinion, be at once pensioned,
as he himself is desirous of being. He has one son in the Presidency College, another a Deputy
Magistrate, Moulvie Ahmud (a distinguished student), and a third, a Teacher in the Anglo-
Persian Department.
111. The “ Besident Moonshee” (not, however, that he resides), Moulvie Kubeerooddeen,
was appointed to the post by Colonel Lees in 1858. He is an ex-student of the Madrassah.
He went through the entire course and held a senior scholarship for two or three years.
Before being appointed “ Besident Moonshee,” he officiated for a short time as chief Kazee
of the Sadder Court. In 1856 he was, he tells us, Examiner of Candidates for Law Officer-
ships, though he himself did not pass that examination till 1859. He has been Sheristadar of
the Board of Examiners since 1856.
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1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
Number of
students.
5
9
5
1
4
7
8
103. The “ College Class,” which was instituted in 1863, for the purpose of educating
up to the standard of the First Examination in Arts such of the pupils of the Anglo-Persian
Department as had passed the University Entrance Exami-
nation, and wished to continue their studies at the Madrassah,
may be said to have been a complete failure. The numbers
composing the class since 1863 are shewn in the margin.
Most of these resigned after a short experience of the system.
There are now only two students in the College Class. No
student joined the “ College” Department this year.
104. Previous to the affiliation (in 1867) of the Madrassah to the Calcutta University,
we might naturally have expected the number in the class to be small ; but even now students
shew no disposition to join. Those who have joined were, it appears, induced to do so partly
by the smallness of the fees for the education proposed to be afforded, and partly by the facility
offered for learning Arabic.
105. The fee in the College Department is Bl; but besides this, as all students entering
the Department are obliged also to join the Arabic Department, they pay 8 annas per mensem.
106. They read Arabic from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m., and at 1-30 go to Mr. Blochmann for
instruction in English ; by which time they are, that gentleman states, a good deal exhausted
by their previous work. Mr. Blochmann further states that so much of his time being taken
up with the duties of the Anglo-Persian Department, he really has not leisure to give them the
necessary instruction. In addition to the Arabic of the Arabic Department, these students
have also to read the University standard in Arabic under the Head Moul vie of the Anglo-
Persian Department. They have no rest throughout the week, having to come on Sunday
to the Arabic Department, and on Friday, when that Department is closed, for instruction, in
English. No student has yet gone up to the First Examination in Arts. It is, we think,
impossible to expect students who have compulsorily to devote so much time to Arabic, to be
able to keep pace in a difficult English course with others who have only, in Arabic, to attain
to the University standard. If joining the Arabic Department had been left optional, the ex-
periment of a College Class might, we are of opinion, have had a better chance of success.
108. Attached to the institution are two officers, the “ Moonshee ” and the “ Besident
Moonshee,” each on Bs. 50, regarding whom we are asked to report. They are under the
direct orders of the Principal.
109. The “ Moonshee, ” Moulvie Golam Kadir (a student of the old Madrassah as far
back as 1822), was appointed to that post in 1856. In 1846, he informs us, he was appointed
a teacher of Oriental languages in the Martiniere at Lucknow, but that appointment was after
some years abolished. His duties are to take at 10 a. m. the attendance of the Professors in
the Arabic Department, to receive from the Professors at 10-15 a. m. the register of attendance
of students, to make a daily abstract of the registers, and send the registers to the Principal;
to receive the applications for short leave from the Arabic Professors, and forward them to the
Principal ; to take charge of any class in the unforeseen absence of its Professor, to take charge
of the order book of the Principal, and to translate the Principal's orders into Persian • to assist
in supervising the annual examination, to take the attendance of the resident students in their
rooms at 9 p. M. ; to help, on occasions, to examine the answers of the students in the Scholar-
ship Examinations • to collect the fees of the Arabic Department, and make them over to the
Head Clerk, to test the “ Sharafutnamahs ” or certificates of respectability. (See paragraph 15.)
110. He lives in the College, having one so-called office-room upstairs, and one residence
room on the ground floor. The second room was given to him, by Colonel Lees, to accommo-
date some of his family who live with him, otherwise, he admits, one room would be sufficient.
He is a worthy old man of seventy-six, and a thorough believer in the advantage of an Eng-
lish education; but is now quite past work, and should, in our opinion, be at once pensioned,
as he himself is desirous of being. He has one son in the Presidency College, another a Deputy
Magistrate, Moulvie Ahmud (a distinguished student), and a third, a Teacher in the Anglo-
Persian Department.
111. The “ Besident Moonshee” (not, however, that he resides), Moulvie Kubeerooddeen,
was appointed to the post by Colonel Lees in 1858. He is an ex-student of the Madrassah.
He went through the entire course and held a senior scholarship for two or three years.
Before being appointed “ Besident Moonshee,” he officiated for a short time as chief Kazee
of the Sadder Court. In 1856 he was, he tells us, Examiner of Candidates for Law Officer-
ships, though he himself did not pass that examination till 1859. He has been Sheristadar of
the Board of Examiners since 1856.
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