statement that the pension had, as represented, been enjoyed by
the father of the petitioner and confirmed to him by the
government on the report of the Collector in 1796, and that the
petitioner was of good character and qualified for the
superintendence of the college. The Revenue Board on
forwarding this petition and the Collector’s letter to the
government observed that the pension had in fact lapsed to the
government in 1811, the petitioner not being then qualified to
discharge the duties of the office, but that it was intended fully
to ascertain his fitness for the office and in the event of his
competency to give it to him. ‘On general principles,’ the Board
added, ‘we entertain the opinion that pensions granted for the
maintenance of public institutions for education and instruction
should not be resumed so long as they shall be appropriated
bona fide for the purpose for which they were assigned; and we
observe on reference to our proceedings that government has
generally been pleased to continue pensions for similar
purposes, the Board having previously ascertained the
qualifications of the persons in whose favour they have been
granted and we are accordingly induced to recommend the
present claim to the favourable consideration of his Lordship in
Council.’ On this recommendation the government confirmed
Kali Kanth Sarma in the receipt of this pension; and upon his
decease in 1821 it was by the same authority conferred on his
brother Chandrasiva Nyayalankara whose claim was undisputed
and who then maintained seven students, five of them resident
in his house.
In July, 1822, the Collector of Moorshedabad forwarded to
the Revenue Board a petition from Kishanath Nyaya
Panchanand, the son of Ramkishore Sarma, reporting the death
of his father, and praying the transfer and continuance to
himself of a monthly pension of five rupees which had been
granted in 1793 for the support of a Hindoo seminary at Vyspur
near Colapur. The Collector reported the petitioner to be the heir
and rightful claimant of the pension and well qualified for the
performance of the duties of the school. Under these
circumstances the transfer of the pension from the name of
Ramkishore Sarma to his son Kishanath Nyaya Panchanand was
authorised.
BEERBHOOM: (pp.98-100)
I find no account of the state of indigenous education in
this district. Hamilton is silent on the subject, and in reply to
inquiries made by the General Committee in 1823, the local
Agent of Government stated that there were no seminaries for