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ASSISTANT COLLECTOR, SERINGAPATAM TO BOARD OF
REVENUE:
29.10.1822
(TNSA: BRP: Vol.929 Pro.4.11.1822 pp.10260-2 Nos.33&4)- I have the honor to transmit in conformity to the
instructions conveyed in your letter of the 25th July last, a
statement exhibiting the number of seminaries within this zillah. - The extent of information acquired under the present
prevailing system of education is extremely limited—nothing
more is professed to be taught in these day-schools than
reading, writing, and arithmetic, just competent for the
discharge of the common daily transactions of society. - There are no traces on record, as far as I can ascertain,
of endowments in land towards the support of colleges and
schools having at a former period been granted either by the
then existing government or any patriotic private individuals.
The superintendents of the different seminaries were left for
remuneration, entirely to the parents of the respective students
frequenting them, and which system obtains to the present day. - It appears that for each pupil the preceptor receives 5
annas monthly which makes the total annual expenditure for
the purposes of education within the Island of Seringapatam
amount to rupees 2,351 and annas 4. This sum, divided
amongst 41 superintendents, gives each on an average the very
inadequate and trifling income of rupees 57 annas 5 and pice 5.
Seringapatam H. Vibart
29th October 1822. Assistant Collector in charge.
(Statement on following page)