Correspondence on the subject of the education of the Muhammadan community in British India and their employment in the public service generally (Calcutta: Government Printing India, 1886)

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Memorandum by Muhammad Latif, Editor, Journal of the An juman-i-Punjab, and Secretary of the Arabic
Journal Nafa-ul-Azim, on Muhammadan* education in India.
The subject has attracted the attention of the Supreme Government, and a few remarks
with reference to Government Resolution on the subject are hereby respectfully offered.
Government has justly sympathised with its Muhammadan subjects who, as its says, ce do
not, with the exception perhaps of the North-Western Provinces and Punjab, adequately, or
in proportion to the rest of the community, avail themselves of the educational advantages
that the Government offers.” Why the case is such demands our first consideration.
India has peculiarities of its own which no country in the world can perhaps possess.
The different forms of religion which Indians follow, the numerous customs which they hold
sacred, and which they respect, as well as their religion, and the various religious thoughts and
notions by which they are actuated, make Indians quite a distinct race when compared with the
rest of the people.
Notwithstanding the great variety of religious forms and beliefs for which India is charac-
terized, no section of the community is inspired with more religious zeal than are the Indian
Mussulmans. In matter of custom the Muhammadans of India would as much respect the
custom observed by their antecedents and elders of the family as they would respect their
religion, and it is in the former point that they differ from the rest of their brethren in
more remote parts of the world. The Prophet commands the followers of Islam to do four
things for their children before they can claim to have pleased God, and to become affection-
ate parents,— 1st, they should circumcise them; 2nd, inform them of the principles of their
• The subject was more exhaustively treated in the Journal of the Anjuman, dated 2nd January 1882.—M. L. ’