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 seventeen school masters,
for Teloogoo and Carnataca, be entertained, at from 7 to 14
rupees each per mensem to be stationed at the seventeen Cusba
stations under each of my Amildars, and liable to their
supervision, to teach gratuitously these languages. Their lowest
pay might be fixed at 7 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 previously require
instruction from the Head Shastry, in grammar, etc. Though
forbidden to demand money all such masters should be allowed
to receive any presents their scholars may offer to them;
particularly those usual, on entering or quitting school. - The highest expense of such an institution would be
273 rupees, the lowest 154 rupees per mensem. The first
expense must necessarily be borne by government, who alone
are able to originate, and, at first support, such a plan. But
proper steps may be taken to engage in it the aid of the more
opulent classes of the community, and if practicable to induce
them, in due time, willingly to contribute to the support of such
schools. Indeed, I have little doubt that the plan would soon
carry with it the united consent, and grateful approbation, of the
more respectable and well informed of the inhabitants at large. - It would also greatly accelerate the progress and
efficiency of such schools, if Government were to appropriate a
moderate annual sum, to the purpose of preparing and printing,
at the college press, or elsewhere, suitable books for the use of
these schools, in the prose, or common, dialects, of the Teloogoo
and Carnataca languages; on the principle stated by me in a
former part of this letter. These should consist of selections from
the most approved native school books, fables, proverbs, etc.,
now in use in the schools or well known in the country to the
exclusion, in the first instance, of all new publications whatever.
Books of a popular and known character, intelligible to all who
read, would thus be procurable at a cheaper rate, and in more