- These surveys began to be made from 1812 onwards, and their main
purpose was to find out what number of such medical men were in
receipt of assignments of revenue. Some details of the castes of these
practitioners may be found in Madras Board of Revenue Proceedings of
17 September 1821, and of 9 March 1837, and other proceedings
referred to therein. - Annexure A (xx) a.
- Annexure A (xi).
- Annexure A (x)
- Annexure A (xxvii).
- This observation of the Collector of Guntoor is corroborated by W.
Adam wherein he mentions that at Nadia many scholars came from
‘remote parts of India, especially from the South’ (W. Adam, p.78, 1941
edition) - Annexure A (xix)
- Annexure A (xxiii)
- It may be mentioned that Persian schools (in all about 145 in the
Presidency) were predominantly attended by Muslims, and only a few
Hindoos seem to have attended them (North Arcot: Hindoos 2, Muslims
396). However, quite a number of Muslim girls were reported to be
attending these schools. - Annexure A (xx)
- Annexure A (xxviii)
- As in many other instances, it was unthinkable for the British that
India could have had a proportionately larger number receiving
education than those in England itself. Such views and judgements in
fact were applied to every sphere and even the rights of the Indian
peasantry were tailored accordingly. On the rights of the cultivator of
land in India, the Fifth Report of the House of Commons stated: ‘It was
accordingly decided, “that the occupants of land in India could establish
no more right, in respect to the soil, than tenantry upon an estate in
England can establish a right to the land, by hereditary residence:” and
the meerassee of a village was therefore defined to be, a preference of
cultivation derived from hereditary residence, but subject to the right of
government as the superior lord of the soil, in what way it chooses, for
the cultivation of its own lands.’ (House of Commons Papers, 1812,
Volume VII, p.105) - Annexures A (xx) and (xiv)
- While the caste-wise break up of the Madras Presidency school and
college scholars has hitherto not been published, the separate figures for
Hindoos and Muslims and those respectively divided into males and
females were published as early as 1832 in the House of Commons
Papers. Since then, it may be presumed that this data regarding the
number of girls and boys in Malabar schools has been seen by a large
number of scholars studying the question of education in India in the
early nineteenth century. Curiously, however, there does not seem to be
even a passing reference to this Malabar data in any of the published
works. It seems to have been overlooked by Sir Philip Hartog also. - Adam’s Reports were first published in 1835, 1836 and 1838. The
three, together with some omissions, and a 60-page rather depressing
and patronising introduction were published by Rev. J. Long from
Calcutta in 1868. Still another edition of the whole (reintroducing the
omissions made by Long and including Long’s own introduction) with a
further new 42-page introduction by Anathnath Basu was published by
the University of Calcutta, in 1941. It is this last edition which is used in
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