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seems to the Lieutenant-Governor to be desirable that this loss should be, as far as possible,
made up to Dr. Hoernle. The Director of Public Instruction has suggested that the salary
of the Principal of the Madrissa College should be R750 per mensem, the highest pay of the
fourth class of the Educational Service. In this the Lieutenant-Governor agrees, and thinks
it only fair that Dr. Hoernle should be allowed to draw this pay at once. But as a matter of
justice, the Lieutenant-Governor thinks that Dr. Hcernle’s seniors in the grade should not
thereby be prejudiced in their promotion. He would therefore direct that, although Dr.
Hoernle should, on sanction being given to the establishment of the Madrissa College, draw
the highest pay of the fourth grade, R750 per month, his promotion to the third grade is not
to be thereby hastened to the prejudice of his seniors in the service.
4. In conclusion, I am to say that the proposals now made, with a view to raising the
Calcutta Madrissa to the status of a college, are not meant to interfere with the existing
arrangements whereby Muhammadan students have two-thirds of their fees paid out of the
Mohsin endowment. These arrangements will still continue in force.
From G. Bellett, Esq., Officiating Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, to the Secretary to the Government
of Bengal, General Department,—No. 1789, dated the 13th March 1883.
I have the honour to submit the following report in accordance with your letter No. 16
of ] 1th January, and to inform you that it would have been submitted earlier but for delay
in forwarding necessary information from some of the mofussil Madrissas.
2. Reports are called for on two subjects in your letter. I will first address myself, for
the sake of convenience, to the second subject—the history, viz., of the mofussil Madrissas.
3. The oldest of these, indeed the only one old enough to have much of a history, is the
Madrissa at Hooghly.
Up to the year 1873, the Hooghly College was entirely supported from the funds bequeathed
by Mahomed Mohsin, the college having been founded in 1836. The numbers in the Oriental
department from 1836 to 1856 seem to have varied between 209 and 175. In 1876 a small
tuition fee was imposed (8 annas per mensem only), and this had the immediate result of
reducing the number of students to 11, and the number has never risen beyond 54 since that
date.
In the year 1860-61 the number of students was 18, and in 1868-69 there were 48 stu-
dents, of whom 25 were scholarship-holders. In 1875-76 the total number of scholars was 16,
of whom 11 were either free-boarders or scholarship-holders. Butin this connection it must
be remembered that in 1874 three other Madrissas—at Rajshahye, Dacca, and Chittagong—had
been founded. A branch Madrissa was established in 1878, at a place called Joreghat, midway
between Hooghly and Chinsurah. The object of this branch school was to act as a feeder to
the Madrissa; but though this branch has succeeded as an elementary English school, it has
provided hardly any students for the Madrissa itself.
The staff of the Hooghly Madrissa cost at one time Rl,464 per mensem, and of this sum
R500 per mensem was spent on the education of ten students, for whom, as being Shias, the
sect to which the founder belonged, special Shia Moulvies were entertained.
The present staff consists of-
fer mensem.
1 Moul vie . . . . • • • . • . . .75
1 Ditto.50
1 Ditto.25
1 Ditto ..20
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This staff is engaged in teaching 38 pupils, of whom 37 are Sunnis.
The salaries of the Arabic Professor and the three Moulvies who are engaged in teaching
in the college and school are paid from the Mohsin Fund, and two-thirds of the fees of the
Muhammadan pupils are paid from the same fund.
The yearly grant to the Hooghly Madrissa is R4,000.
4. The three other Madrissas—at Rajshahye, Dacca, and Chittagong—were all founded
in the year 1874, with a view to extending to a wider area the benefits of the foundation of
Mahomed Mohsin.
5. The Rajshahye Madrissa, which receives a yearly grant of R7,000, had in the first
year of its existence 100 pupils, but from various causes the number rapidly decreased, and in
1877-78 there were only 45 pupils. Since that date, however, the numbers have steadily risen,
and on the 31st January 1883 there were 101 pupils on the rolls. The teaching staff now
consists of the Superintendent and five Moulvies, who are engaged in teaching Muhammadan
seems to the Lieutenant-Governor to be desirable that this loss should be, as far as possible,
made up to Dr. Hoernle. The Director of Public Instruction has suggested that the salary
of the Principal of the Madrissa College should be R750 per mensem, the highest pay of the
fourth class of the Educational Service. In this the Lieutenant-Governor agrees, and thinks
it only fair that Dr. Hoernle should be allowed to draw this pay at once. But as a matter of
justice, the Lieutenant-Governor thinks that Dr. Hcernle’s seniors in the grade should not
thereby be prejudiced in their promotion. He would therefore direct that, although Dr.
Hoernle should, on sanction being given to the establishment of the Madrissa College, draw
the highest pay of the fourth grade, R750 per month, his promotion to the third grade is not
to be thereby hastened to the prejudice of his seniors in the service.
4. In conclusion, I am to say that the proposals now made, with a view to raising the
Calcutta Madrissa to the status of a college, are not meant to interfere with the existing
arrangements whereby Muhammadan students have two-thirds of their fees paid out of the
Mohsin endowment. These arrangements will still continue in force.
From G. Bellett, Esq., Officiating Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, to the Secretary to the Government
of Bengal, General Department,—No. 1789, dated the 13th March 1883.
I have the honour to submit the following report in accordance with your letter No. 16
of ] 1th January, and to inform you that it would have been submitted earlier but for delay
in forwarding necessary information from some of the mofussil Madrissas.
2. Reports are called for on two subjects in your letter. I will first address myself, for
the sake of convenience, to the second subject—the history, viz., of the mofussil Madrissas.
3. The oldest of these, indeed the only one old enough to have much of a history, is the
Madrissa at Hooghly.
Up to the year 1873, the Hooghly College was entirely supported from the funds bequeathed
by Mahomed Mohsin, the college having been founded in 1836. The numbers in the Oriental
department from 1836 to 1856 seem to have varied between 209 and 175. In 1876 a small
tuition fee was imposed (8 annas per mensem only), and this had the immediate result of
reducing the number of students to 11, and the number has never risen beyond 54 since that
date.
In the year 1860-61 the number of students was 18, and in 1868-69 there were 48 stu-
dents, of whom 25 were scholarship-holders. In 1875-76 the total number of scholars was 16,
of whom 11 were either free-boarders or scholarship-holders. Butin this connection it must
be remembered that in 1874 three other Madrissas—at Rajshahye, Dacca, and Chittagong—had
been founded. A branch Madrissa was established in 1878, at a place called Joreghat, midway
between Hooghly and Chinsurah. The object of this branch school was to act as a feeder to
the Madrissa; but though this branch has succeeded as an elementary English school, it has
provided hardly any students for the Madrissa itself.
The staff of the Hooghly Madrissa cost at one time Rl,464 per mensem, and of this sum
R500 per mensem was spent on the education of ten students, for whom, as being Shias, the
sect to which the founder belonged, special Shia Moulvies were entertained.
The present staff consists of-
fer mensem.
1 Moul vie . . . . • • • . • . . .75
1 Ditto.50
1 Ditto.25
1 Ditto ..20
170
This staff is engaged in teaching 38 pupils, of whom 37 are Sunnis.
The salaries of the Arabic Professor and the three Moulvies who are engaged in teaching
in the college and school are paid from the Mohsin Fund, and two-thirds of the fees of the
Muhammadan pupils are paid from the same fund.
The yearly grant to the Hooghly Madrissa is R4,000.
4. The three other Madrissas—at Rajshahye, Dacca, and Chittagong—were all founded
in the year 1874, with a view to extending to a wider area the benefits of the foundation of
Mahomed Mohsin.
5. The Rajshahye Madrissa, which receives a yearly grant of R7,000, had in the first
year of its existence 100 pupils, but from various causes the number rapidly decreased, and in
1877-78 there were only 45 pupils. Since that date, however, the numbers have steadily risen,
and on the 31st January 1883 there were 101 pupils on the rolls. The teaching staff now
consists of the Superintendent and five Moulvies, who are engaged in teaching Muhammadan