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Encouragement should be given to
Muhammadans to provide stipends to
induce promising boys to continue their
studies.
ment from rendering them any assistance. Such schools have been eligible for aid from
Municipal Funds, but on no fixed principles. The new arrangements in connexion with local
self-government will, no doubt, afford an opportunity for the more systematic encouragement
of such schools.
20. I think further that encouragement might be given to the Muhammadan community
to provide stipends in connexion with schools of every grade,
with the view of inducing the most promising boys of that
community to prosecute their studies to a higher standard.
If such stipends could be offered, in addition to any open
scholarships that may be won in the ordinary way, to boys of respectable families who appear
to need assistance, it is probable that such a measure would greatly tend to increase the num-
ber of Muhammadans who seek for a University education.
21. It will be seen that I am very strongly impressed with the belief, which I have held
... , ... ,. . n for many years, that higher English education is absolutely
Higher education essential tor Mu- j j j . j
hannnadans to secure more lucrative essential to enable the Muhammadan community to obtain a
appointments. fair gpare of more lucrative appointments under Govern-
ment, and I feel, also, a very strong conviction that it is most desirable for many reasons that
they should obtain an adequate share of such appointments. If his Honour the Lieutenant-
Governor should consider that this view of the matter is a correct one, and that in order to
hold their own it is essential that the Muhammadans should be adequately represented in Eng-
lish colleges, it would, I think, be easy to impress this on the leaders of the Muhammadan
community generally, and induce them to make an effort for the removal of the present
inequality.
22. To 'effect this object it is essential (1) that Muhammadan boys should begin their
general education at an early age, and (2) that students of
esse.ntial Points to heIP in high schools should be induced to complete their education at
effecting the object. & r
college.
From Pandit Amabnath, Secretary to the Anjuman-i-Punjab, to the Secretary to the Government, Punjab,--
No. 27, dated Lahore, the 10th August 1882.
With reference to your No. 802, dated 6th April last, and subsequent reminders, forward-
ing for opinion a memorial from the Muhammadan community of Calcutta regarding the con-
dition of Muhammadans in India, I have the honour to inform you that the papers received were
published and circulated among the members for opinion, but no definite opinion has yet been
received. A general meeting of the Anjuman will be convened shortly, and the opinion of the
Society communicated to you probably in about a week's time.
2. In the meantime I beg to submit herewith a statement of the opinions of certain
Muhammadan gentlemen as elicited by the Punjab Government in 1872 on a similar ques-
tion.
P.S.—The memorial alluded to does not seem to be applicable to this Province, as will be
evident from the Classified List of Judicial, Executive and other Civil Officials, which contains
no less than 250 names of gazetted Muhammadan employes.
MUHAMMADAN EDUCATION.
The opinions of the Muhammadan members of the Senate of the Punjab University College
and of certain Moulvis and others on the subject of Muhammadan education and of the condi-
tion of the Muhammadan community in general in the Punjab, which were elicited by the
Punjab Government in ] 872, are now republished, together with other papers bearing on the same
question, with the view of forming a starting-point for the expression of further opinions with
special reference to the points in the memorial of the National Muhammadan Association of
Calcutta, to which the Punjab Government have recently directed the attention of the Senate
of the Punjab University College and of the Anjuman-i-Punjab.
Memorandum on Muhammadan education in India, by Rahim Khan, “ Khan Bahadur," Medical Fellow
and Member of Senate, Punjab University College,—dated Lahore, the 17th April 1872.
Before entering into the aims and objects of education as seen from a Muhammadan stand-
point, I would first briefly describe the educational constitution of the Muhammadan society in
India.
The Muhammadan society consists of three classes—the upper, middle, and the lower
The upper class consists of nawabs, jagirdars, and rich zemindars; the middle comprises maulvis,
Encouragement should be given to
Muhammadans to provide stipends to
induce promising boys to continue their
studies.
ment from rendering them any assistance. Such schools have been eligible for aid from
Municipal Funds, but on no fixed principles. The new arrangements in connexion with local
self-government will, no doubt, afford an opportunity for the more systematic encouragement
of such schools.
20. I think further that encouragement might be given to the Muhammadan community
to provide stipends in connexion with schools of every grade,
with the view of inducing the most promising boys of that
community to prosecute their studies to a higher standard.
If such stipends could be offered, in addition to any open
scholarships that may be won in the ordinary way, to boys of respectable families who appear
to need assistance, it is probable that such a measure would greatly tend to increase the num-
ber of Muhammadans who seek for a University education.
21. It will be seen that I am very strongly impressed with the belief, which I have held
... , ... ,. . n for many years, that higher English education is absolutely
Higher education essential tor Mu- j j j . j
hannnadans to secure more lucrative essential to enable the Muhammadan community to obtain a
appointments. fair gpare of more lucrative appointments under Govern-
ment, and I feel, also, a very strong conviction that it is most desirable for many reasons that
they should obtain an adequate share of such appointments. If his Honour the Lieutenant-
Governor should consider that this view of the matter is a correct one, and that in order to
hold their own it is essential that the Muhammadans should be adequately represented in Eng-
lish colleges, it would, I think, be easy to impress this on the leaders of the Muhammadan
community generally, and induce them to make an effort for the removal of the present
inequality.
22. To 'effect this object it is essential (1) that Muhammadan boys should begin their
general education at an early age, and (2) that students of
esse.ntial Points to heIP in high schools should be induced to complete their education at
effecting the object. & r
college.
From Pandit Amabnath, Secretary to the Anjuman-i-Punjab, to the Secretary to the Government, Punjab,--
No. 27, dated Lahore, the 10th August 1882.
With reference to your No. 802, dated 6th April last, and subsequent reminders, forward-
ing for opinion a memorial from the Muhammadan community of Calcutta regarding the con-
dition of Muhammadans in India, I have the honour to inform you that the papers received were
published and circulated among the members for opinion, but no definite opinion has yet been
received. A general meeting of the Anjuman will be convened shortly, and the opinion of the
Society communicated to you probably in about a week's time.
2. In the meantime I beg to submit herewith a statement of the opinions of certain
Muhammadan gentlemen as elicited by the Punjab Government in 1872 on a similar ques-
tion.
P.S.—The memorial alluded to does not seem to be applicable to this Province, as will be
evident from the Classified List of Judicial, Executive and other Civil Officials, which contains
no less than 250 names of gazetted Muhammadan employes.
MUHAMMADAN EDUCATION.
The opinions of the Muhammadan members of the Senate of the Punjab University College
and of certain Moulvis and others on the subject of Muhammadan education and of the condi-
tion of the Muhammadan community in general in the Punjab, which were elicited by the
Punjab Government in ] 872, are now republished, together with other papers bearing on the same
question, with the view of forming a starting-point for the expression of further opinions with
special reference to the points in the memorial of the National Muhammadan Association of
Calcutta, to which the Punjab Government have recently directed the attention of the Senate
of the Punjab University College and of the Anjuman-i-Punjab.
Memorandum on Muhammadan education in India, by Rahim Khan, “ Khan Bahadur," Medical Fellow
and Member of Senate, Punjab University College,—dated Lahore, the 17th April 1872.
Before entering into the aims and objects of education as seen from a Muhammadan stand-
point, I would first briefly describe the educational constitution of the Muhammadan society in
India.
The Muhammadan society consists of three classes—the upper, middle, and the lower
The upper class consists of nawabs, jagirdars, and rich zemindars; the middle comprises maulvis,