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I am certainly not the most competent person to suggest improvement. It requires
vast knowledge in the political affairs. However, taking advantage of the liberty given, I
may speak out freely what I think on the subject. I would therefore think that English
should be compulsory as a study,-and the test should be for scholarships in the English as well
as in the Arabic tongue, and that neither junior nor senior scholarships should be given
without the students being competent to a certain standard in the one tongue as the other; and
that Bengali, which at the present time forms an essential language under Government, must
needs be part of study in the Calcutta Mudrussah College.
I have given a short account of what I have thought on the matter, and will be ready to
answer any written question put to me.
I beg to remain,
Sir, /
Your most obedient servant,
Calcutta ; 'I
The 1st September 1869. ) Ex-student of the Calcutta Mudrussah College.
Sir,
I am now going to express my opinion regarding the instruction of Mahomedan lads, the
text of religion mentioned simultaneously in our law books, together with other things.
Abeut the fact, that whether “ Abadat” is to be taught in the Mudrussah simultaneously
with other things, I have consulted the matter with many learned and respectable persons of
our community, in which the unanimous reply was, that when the Government has undertaken
to teach the Mahomedan lads the law books of their religion, then it is a most necessary
thing for the Government to teach them the religion, because it teaches not only what religion
is, but morality too; and without a full and perfect knowledge of one’s own religion he is
nothing.
As for the admission of grown up boys, who desire to receive only the instruction of
religious books, I am of opinion that some intermediate classes, not more than two, should be
made for them.
I am,
Your most obedient servant,
Murhammat Hossein,
Pleader, High Court.
The 4th August 1869.
[Translation from Persian.]
I, a reader of the Doorbeen, have learnt from the paper of the August last, that
under "the orders of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, three Commissioners, viz., C. H.
Campbell, Esq., J. Sutcliffe, Esq., and Moulvi Abdul Lutif, Khan Bahadur, have been
appointed to investigate into the internal and external management of the Calcutta Mud-
russah, and that they have been engaged in the said investigation from the 5th August till
the 3rd September, holding their meeting every day from 7 to 10, 11, or 12 a.m., only
with the exception of Sundays. With reference to the advertisement in the Doorbeen of
September, notifying that any English or Native gentleman who might take any interest in
the education of the Mahomedans should be good enough to communicate his own sugges-
tion or information to Mr. C. H. Campbell of the Board of Revenue, I, a well-wisher of the
Mahomedans, and the executor of the will made for the Jalaliah Mudrussah in Behar, and
the secretary of the school founded there, do hereby submit to the Commissioners which I
consider to be beneficial and advantageous to the students of the Mudrussah College. The
above Mudrussah was founded by His Excellency the Governor-General, Mr. Hastings, especi-
ally for educating the sons of Mahomedans belonging to the Soonee sect, and the object and
aim of His Excellency was only to educate them in Arabic and Persian, the current branches of
learning at that time: and His Excellency as well as other ministers of Government accord.
inMy used to call for, every year, lists of students that had completed their course from the
Secretary, the Ameen, and the Professors attached to the said College, and confer upon them
some high posts, such as moonsiffships, sudder ameenships, principal sudder ameenships, law
officerships, and many other posts of distinction besides. Encouraged by the belief that their
labor would not pass unnoticed and unrewarded, the students engaged themselves, head and heart,
in the pursuit of their literary career, and endeavoured with ardent zeal to arrive at the highest
decree of perfection in their course. In those days a perfect son of learning was wistfully gazed
upon as the world-illuminating sun, and admired as the alchemy of sanctity and virtue. The
I am certainly not the most competent person to suggest improvement. It requires
vast knowledge in the political affairs. However, taking advantage of the liberty given, I
may speak out freely what I think on the subject. I would therefore think that English
should be compulsory as a study,-and the test should be for scholarships in the English as well
as in the Arabic tongue, and that neither junior nor senior scholarships should be given
without the students being competent to a certain standard in the one tongue as the other; and
that Bengali, which at the present time forms an essential language under Government, must
needs be part of study in the Calcutta Mudrussah College.
I have given a short account of what I have thought on the matter, and will be ready to
answer any written question put to me.
I beg to remain,
Sir, /
Your most obedient servant,
Calcutta ; 'I
The 1st September 1869. ) Ex-student of the Calcutta Mudrussah College.
Sir,
I am now going to express my opinion regarding the instruction of Mahomedan lads, the
text of religion mentioned simultaneously in our law books, together with other things.
Abeut the fact, that whether “ Abadat” is to be taught in the Mudrussah simultaneously
with other things, I have consulted the matter with many learned and respectable persons of
our community, in which the unanimous reply was, that when the Government has undertaken
to teach the Mahomedan lads the law books of their religion, then it is a most necessary
thing for the Government to teach them the religion, because it teaches not only what religion
is, but morality too; and without a full and perfect knowledge of one’s own religion he is
nothing.
As for the admission of grown up boys, who desire to receive only the instruction of
religious books, I am of opinion that some intermediate classes, not more than two, should be
made for them.
I am,
Your most obedient servant,
Murhammat Hossein,
Pleader, High Court.
The 4th August 1869.
[Translation from Persian.]
I, a reader of the Doorbeen, have learnt from the paper of the August last, that
under "the orders of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, three Commissioners, viz., C. H.
Campbell, Esq., J. Sutcliffe, Esq., and Moulvi Abdul Lutif, Khan Bahadur, have been
appointed to investigate into the internal and external management of the Calcutta Mud-
russah, and that they have been engaged in the said investigation from the 5th August till
the 3rd September, holding their meeting every day from 7 to 10, 11, or 12 a.m., only
with the exception of Sundays. With reference to the advertisement in the Doorbeen of
September, notifying that any English or Native gentleman who might take any interest in
the education of the Mahomedans should be good enough to communicate his own sugges-
tion or information to Mr. C. H. Campbell of the Board of Revenue, I, a well-wisher of the
Mahomedans, and the executor of the will made for the Jalaliah Mudrussah in Behar, and
the secretary of the school founded there, do hereby submit to the Commissioners which I
consider to be beneficial and advantageous to the students of the Mudrussah College. The
above Mudrussah was founded by His Excellency the Governor-General, Mr. Hastings, especi-
ally for educating the sons of Mahomedans belonging to the Soonee sect, and the object and
aim of His Excellency was only to educate them in Arabic and Persian, the current branches of
learning at that time: and His Excellency as well as other ministers of Government accord.
inMy used to call for, every year, lists of students that had completed their course from the
Secretary, the Ameen, and the Professors attached to the said College, and confer upon them
some high posts, such as moonsiffships, sudder ameenships, principal sudder ameenships, law
officerships, and many other posts of distinction besides. Encouraged by the belief that their
labor would not pass unnoticed and unrewarded, the students engaged themselves, head and heart,
in the pursuit of their literary career, and endeavoured with ardent zeal to arrive at the highest
decree of perfection in their course. In those days a perfect son of learning was wistfully gazed
upon as the world-illuminating sun, and admired as the alchemy of sanctity and virtue. The