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and enlarge existing institutions rather than to create new denominational places of instruction.
To the second question the answer is yes ; and to the third the Government of India replies by
offering R50,000 to compensate the provincial assignment for the specialisation of the Mohsin
endowment.
No. 249.
Copy forwarded to the Financial Department.
Notification No. 250, dated Simla, the 13th June 1873.
The following letter to the address of the Secretary to the Government of Bengal is
published for general information :—
[Here read No. 248, dated the 13th June 1873, from A. C. Lyall, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India,
to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal,—recorded above. ]
A. C. LYALL,
Secretary to the Government of India.
From the Government of India, to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India,—No. 5, dated Simla, the
30th June 1873.
In your Despatch of the 14th December 1871, No. 12, Your Grace communicated a
general approval of the proceedings reported in our letter of the 17th August, No. 10 of 1871,
regarding Mahomedan education in India, and the condition of the Calcutta and Hooghly
Madrassahs.
2. We now transmit, for Your Grace’s information, a copy of our further proceedings
on the subject. These include the replies of the several Local Governments and Admini-
strations to our Circular Resolution of the 7th August 1871 as to the measures to be adopted
for the more systematic encouragement of education among Mahomedans, the Resolution, dated
13th June 1873, that we have recorded on these papers, and a separate correspondence with
the Government of Bengal regarding the re-organization of the Calcutta and Hooghly Mad-
rassahs on the principles laid down in our letter to that Government, No. 248, dated the
13th instant.
From the Government of India, to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India,—-No. 295, dated Simla, the
21st July 1873.
We have the honor to forward for Your Grace's approval copy of a letter* to the Gov-
* For previous papers, vide No. 97 of
Proceedings in the Home Depart-
ment (Education Department) for
August 1872.
ernment of Bengal, No. 248, dated the 13th June 1873, con-
taining our orders upon Sir G. Campbell's proposals for the
encouragement and improvement of education among the
Muhammadan population in Bengal.
2. Your Grace will observe that we have sanctioned the appointment of a Principal
and Superintendent to the Calcutta institution upon a minimum salary of R1,000 per men-
sem, and that we have added R50,000 a year to the assignment to the Government of
Bengal for provincial services, in order to provide for a re-appropriation of the “ Mohsin
Funds."
No. 1784, dated Simla, the 21st July 1873.
(Endorsed by the Financial Department.
Copy forwarded to the Home Department, with reference to ‘its endorsement No 249,
dated 13th June 1873. \
Resolution by the Government of Bengal in the General Department, dated Calcutta, the 29th July 1873,
Read the following papers regarding the increased extension of educational facilities to
Mahomedans in Bengal, namely,—
Bengal Government letter No. 2918, dated 17th August 1872, with enclosures.
Home Department liesolution and letter, dated 13th June 1873.
Also the proposals by Mr. H. Woodrow, then Officiating Director of Public Instruction, under date
the 9th August 1872, with the Lieutenant-Governor’s orders thereon.
Also letter No. 242B., dated 28th November 1871, from the Commissioner of Dacca, enclosing a
memorial signed by Khajeh Abdool Gunny, c.s.i,, and other Mahomedans of Dacca, praying
for the establishment of a Mahomedan College at Dacca, and specifying the advantages and conces-
sions they specially desire.
Also the Commissioner of Dacca’s report, No. 102A-, dated 16th June 1873, upon the question put by
Government as to the languages which Mahomedan boys at Government schools in Eastern
Bengal wish to learn.
Resolution.—The Lieutenant-Governor observes that all the Government schools in
Bengal, except the Sanskrit College and the Hindu School in Calcutta, are already open to
Mahomedan as well as to Christian and Hindu scholars ; and he has, in the correspondence
cited above, expressed his unwillingness to found, with Government money, special schools for
and enlarge existing institutions rather than to create new denominational places of instruction.
To the second question the answer is yes ; and to the third the Government of India replies by
offering R50,000 to compensate the provincial assignment for the specialisation of the Mohsin
endowment.
No. 249.
Copy forwarded to the Financial Department.
Notification No. 250, dated Simla, the 13th June 1873.
The following letter to the address of the Secretary to the Government of Bengal is
published for general information :—
[Here read No. 248, dated the 13th June 1873, from A. C. Lyall, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India,
to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal,—recorded above. ]
A. C. LYALL,
Secretary to the Government of India.
From the Government of India, to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India,—No. 5, dated Simla, the
30th June 1873.
In your Despatch of the 14th December 1871, No. 12, Your Grace communicated a
general approval of the proceedings reported in our letter of the 17th August, No. 10 of 1871,
regarding Mahomedan education in India, and the condition of the Calcutta and Hooghly
Madrassahs.
2. We now transmit, for Your Grace’s information, a copy of our further proceedings
on the subject. These include the replies of the several Local Governments and Admini-
strations to our Circular Resolution of the 7th August 1871 as to the measures to be adopted
for the more systematic encouragement of education among Mahomedans, the Resolution, dated
13th June 1873, that we have recorded on these papers, and a separate correspondence with
the Government of Bengal regarding the re-organization of the Calcutta and Hooghly Mad-
rassahs on the principles laid down in our letter to that Government, No. 248, dated the
13th instant.
From the Government of India, to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India,—-No. 295, dated Simla, the
21st July 1873.
We have the honor to forward for Your Grace's approval copy of a letter* to the Gov-
* For previous papers, vide No. 97 of
Proceedings in the Home Depart-
ment (Education Department) for
August 1872.
ernment of Bengal, No. 248, dated the 13th June 1873, con-
taining our orders upon Sir G. Campbell's proposals for the
encouragement and improvement of education among the
Muhammadan population in Bengal.
2. Your Grace will observe that we have sanctioned the appointment of a Principal
and Superintendent to the Calcutta institution upon a minimum salary of R1,000 per men-
sem, and that we have added R50,000 a year to the assignment to the Government of
Bengal for provincial services, in order to provide for a re-appropriation of the “ Mohsin
Funds."
No. 1784, dated Simla, the 21st July 1873.
(Endorsed by the Financial Department.
Copy forwarded to the Home Department, with reference to ‘its endorsement No 249,
dated 13th June 1873. \
Resolution by the Government of Bengal in the General Department, dated Calcutta, the 29th July 1873,
Read the following papers regarding the increased extension of educational facilities to
Mahomedans in Bengal, namely,—
Bengal Government letter No. 2918, dated 17th August 1872, with enclosures.
Home Department liesolution and letter, dated 13th June 1873.
Also the proposals by Mr. H. Woodrow, then Officiating Director of Public Instruction, under date
the 9th August 1872, with the Lieutenant-Governor’s orders thereon.
Also letter No. 242B., dated 28th November 1871, from the Commissioner of Dacca, enclosing a
memorial signed by Khajeh Abdool Gunny, c.s.i,, and other Mahomedans of Dacca, praying
for the establishment of a Mahomedan College at Dacca, and specifying the advantages and conces-
sions they specially desire.
Also the Commissioner of Dacca’s report, No. 102A-, dated 16th June 1873, upon the question put by
Government as to the languages which Mahomedan boys at Government schools in Eastern
Bengal wish to learn.
Resolution.—The Lieutenant-Governor observes that all the Government schools in
Bengal, except the Sanskrit College and the Hindu School in Calcutta, are already open to
Mahomedan as well as to Christian and Hindu scholars ; and he has, in the correspondence
cited above, expressed his unwillingness to found, with Government money, special schools for