Teaching of Accounts
Regarding the content of elementary teaching, Adam mentioned
various books which were used in teaching. These varied consid-
erably from district to district, but all schools in the surveyed
districts, except perhaps the 14 Christian schools, taught ac-
counts. Also, most of them taught both commercial and
agricultural accounts. Table 13 gives a district-wise statement:
Table 13: ACCOUNTS TEACHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
AND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSThe age of admission in elementary schools varied from 5
to 8 years, and, that of leaving school from 13 years to 16.5
years.
Institutions of Sanskritic Learning
The schools of Sanskritic learning in the surveyed districts (in all
353) numbered as high as 190 in Burdwan (1,358 scholars) and
as low as 27 in South Behar (437 scholars). The teachers (355 in
all) were predominantly Brahmins, only 5 being from the Vaidya
caste. The subjects predominantly taught were Grammar (1,424
students), Logic (378 students), Law (336 students) and Litera-
ture (120 students). Others, in order of numbers studying them,
were Mythology (82 students), Astrology (78 students), Lexicology
(48 students), Rhetoric (19 students), Medicine (18 students),
Vedanta (13 students), Tantra (14 students), Mimansa (2
students), and Sankhya (1 student). The duration of the study
and the ages when it was started and completed varied a great
deal from subject to subject, and also from district to district.