DHARAMPAL • COLLECTED WRITINGS

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PRINCIPAL COLLECTOR OF SOUTH ARCOT TO BOARD OF

REVENUE:

29.6.1823 Cuddalore

(TNSA: BRP: Vol.954, Pro.7.7.1823, pp.5622-24 No.59-60)

1. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
   Deputy Secretary’s letter under date the 25th of July 1822 with
   its enclosures, in conformity to which I herewith submit a
   statement of the number of native schools and colleges in this
   Collectorate drawn out according to the Form received from your
   Board.


2. The number of schools which this statement exhibits
   have each one teacher where reading and writing in the Malabar
   and Gentoo languages, are taught. The payment made for each
   scholar is from 1 fanam to 1 Pagoda per month according to the
   condition and circumstances of their parents. The scholars
   generally attend the school from 6 to 10 o’clock in the morning
   then from 12 to 2 and lastly from 3 to 7 and 8 o’clock in the
   evening.


3. There are no private or public schools for teaching
   Technology, Law, Astronomy, etc., in this Collectorate, and no
   allowance of any sort has ever been granted by the Native
   Governments to schools the masters of which are entirely
   supported by the parents of the scholars.

Principal Collector’s
Cutcherry, Cuddalore, C. Hyde,
29th June, 1823. Principal Collector.

(Statement on following pages)