357 On the Education of the Nativei 171 Souther 7i India. [Oct. 



ed to beg- her soantv ami uncertain meal from the chance bene- 

 volence of cliaritaUle intlivichials; and it avouUI be diflicult to point 

 out any period in the history of India when she stood more in 

 need of the protU'red aiil of Covernnient to raise her front the 

 deirraded state into which sht' has fallen, and dispel the pievailing 

 ignorance whu h so unhappily pcrv.ides the land. 



At a former period, I recollect, that the Government, on the 

 recommend. itiiin of the College Board, authorized the late Mr. 

 Ross, then collector in the neiglibouring district of Cuddapah, 

 to establish experimental schools, with the view of improving the 

 education of the natives; but the lamented death of that zealous 

 aad able jiublic ()tH< er led to the abandonment of a plan to which 

 his talents and popularity in the country were peculiarly calculat- 

 ed to uive success. As secretary to the College and to your 

 Board, I was at tliat time a warm advocate for such experiment; 

 and it now allowed, I should gladly attempt to superintend some 

 arrangement of that kind in my present provincial situation. 



I would propose the appointment of an able shastry from 

 amongst the law students at the college, with an addition to his 

 existing pay of only 10 pagodas per mensem, to be placed under 

 me at the principal station of the district, to instruct gratuitously 

 all who choose to attend him, in the Hindoo sciences, in the Sans- 

 crit language, and the native school-masters in the grammar of 

 the Teloogoo and Carnataca tongues, being those vernacular here. 

 Such a man I have no doubt that I could soon obtain from the 

 college ; for if one with all the requisite qualifications is not at 

 present attached to the institution, there are many that I know 

 there who can speedily qualify themselves for it in a very short 

 time. 



Subordinate to this man, and liable to his periodical visitations, 

 I would recommend that 17 schoolmasters in Teloogoo and Car- 

 nataca be entertained at from 7 to 14 rupees each per mensem, to be 

 stationed at the 17 Cusba stations under each of my amildars, and 

 liable to their supervision to teach gratuitously these languages. 

 Their lowest pay might be fixed at seven rupees, and might be 

 raised by fixed gradations, with the increasing number of their 

 scholars, as high as the maximum above stated. All of these 

 might be selected from the best informed of the present school- 

 masters here ; but with reference to the low state of knowledge 

 amongst the present persons of that class, most of them will pre- 



