1850.] 



Education in Madras. 



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Extracted from the Appendix to the Report from the Select Committee. 

 Memoir compiled from the Records of the India Governments at 

 the East India House, in pursuance of a Minute of the Com- 

 mittee of Correspondence of the 7th February, 1826, " shoiv- 

 ing the extent to which aid has been afforded by the local Go- 

 vernments in India, towards the establishment of Native 

 Schools in that country: " 



Reprinted from Minutes on E. I. Affairs, H- of C. 1832. 



From a very early period of time, the charge of instructing the 

 natives of India devolved principally on the Company's Chaplains. 

 To excite them to the diligent performance of this branch of their 

 duty, the local Governments (acting under the orders of the Court 

 of Directors, and under the authority of the Company's Charter), 

 occasionally granted to them gratuities for special services rendered 

 in the performance of this duty. 



Schools or Colleges for the promotion of learning among the na- 

 tives of India have also been established by the local Governments, 

 the expense of upholding which is constituted an annual charge upon 

 the revenues of the country. The Governments have likewise grant- 

 ed from the public revenues, pecuniary aid to several similar insti- 

 tutions which have been established by individuals or by voluntary 

 associations of the Company's servants and others, living under the 

 protection of the British Government in India. 



The extent to which these aids have been afforded, will be found 

 stated in the following brief narrative of the origin and history of the 

 several institutions, but which does not include those in immediate 

 connection with the Government of the country, such as, 



First. Those Colleges and establishments at the several Presidencies 

 which have been formed for the purpose of providing the means of edu- 

 cation, in the native languages, for the Company's Civil Servants ex- 

 clusively ; upon which establishments considerable numbers of learned 

 natives are retained, in the capacities of moulavees, moonshees, pundits, 

 and professors of the art of writing in the native character, and re- 

 ceive fixed salaries for the performance of their respective duties. 



Secondly. The regimentalschools, which are in part supported by 

 stoppages out of the pay of the troops, both Europeans and Natives. 



Thirdly. Those parts of the Company's Medical establishments 

 at the several Presidencies which are maintained for the purpose of 

 instructing native doctors in the science of medicine, with a particu. 

 lar view to the more efficient discharge of their duties as vaccinators. 



