ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the attitude of the native nobility towards education, and the steps taken to second any willingness shown by them to participate in a reformed system; and the special disabilities under which the Musalmans have laboured, or have supposed themselves to labour, and the efforts made to meet their wants. It describes the measures which have been suggested for reclaiming the half civilised aboriginal tribes which inhabit the forests and mountains of India. Some contended that the system of education prevailing in Government schools and colleges corrupted the morals and manners of the pupils, and that for this reason the better classes would not subject their sons to dangerous contact. The vernacular of the mass of Musalmans in Bengal was known to be Bengali, and the ordinary pathsalas of the country were held to supply the proper means of elementary education.
