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Native Education. 



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purpose, especially of late years, the amount I have estimat- 

 ed by no means exceeds the just proportion due to our na- 

 tive subjects, in this extensive portion of the Indian domini- 

 ons of Britain. 



" An account of all sums that have been applied to the 

 purpose of educating the natives in India, from the year 

 1813 to the latest period to which the same can be made out, 

 distinguishing the amount in each year. 



■■■ 



, 



Bengal. 



Madras. 



Bombay. 



- 



Total. 





£. 



£. 



£. 



£. 



1813 



4207 



480 



442 



5129 



1814 .... 



11606 



480 



499 



12585 



1815 



4405 



480 



537 



5422 



1816 



5! 46 



480 



578 



6204 



■ 1817 .... 



5177 



480 



795 



6452 



LblH .... 



5^1 1 



4 HO 



ooO 



6321 



1819 



7191 



480 



1270 



8941 



1820 



5807 



480 



1401 



7688 



1821 .... 



6882 



480 



594 



7956 



1822 



9081 



480 



594 



10155 



1823 



6134 



480 



594 



7208 



1824 



19970 



480 



1434 



21884 



1825 



57122 



480 



8961 



66563 



. 1826 



21623 



480 



5309 



27412 



1827 



30077 



2140 



13096 



45313 



1828 .... 



22797 



2980 



10064 



35841 , 



1829 .... 



24663 



3614 



9799 



38076 



'1830 



28748 



2946 



12636 



44330 



" Madras ought to take shame to itself for its back- 

 wardness in the cause of native education, as exposed in the 

 above return to the British Senate ; and as no other public 

 body can exculpate it from this reproach, except this Board, 

 I have considered myself bound, as its senior Member, though 

 sensible of my inability to perform the task adequately, to 

 sketch the outline of a plan for the improvement of public 

 instruction, such as may be modified and matured by my 

 Colleagues. Whilst it embraces a gradual improvement in the 

 education of the mass of the natives generally, by converting 

 the symbols of sounds not understood, into the medium of 

 conveying instruction to their minds, and moral impressions 



