Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities

  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 7

The state of education in Murshidabad (Bengal), as it describes in the ‘William adam's reports on education’ during British East India Company'S rule in Bengal

  • Author:
  • Firoj High Sarwar
  • Total Page Count: 13
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 75 to 87

Research Scholar, Department of History (CAS), AMU, Aligarh, India

Abstract

The state of education under the regime of British East India Company as it describe

in the Adam's three respective reports (1835, 1836 & 1838) shows the opening stage for overall educational developments (both vernacular and English) in Bengal. These Reports provides us graphic pictures of different mode and sate of education in different districts of Bengal. Here in this paper a detail statistical and comparative study has been made to show the different aspects of educational developments existed particularly in Murshidabad city and Murshidabad district by that time. The paper tried to explore the contemporary instruction pattern, teaching methods, nature of institutions, instructors and the students along with their magnitudes existed in different localities of Murshidabad district.

Keywords

Reports, Pathsalas, Sanskrit, Vernacular, Western, Caste etc