ABSTRACT
In the month of September 1780 a petition was presented to Warren Hastings, by a considerable number of Mussulmen of credit and learning, to establish a Madressa or College. For this reason a convenient piece of ground was purchased near the Boita Connah in a quarter of the town called Podpoker and the foundation of a square building was laid for a madrissa. Hastings recommended that the rents of one or more Mousa or villages in the neighbourhood of the place be assigned for the monthly expence of the proposed Madressa and that it be referred to the Committee of Revenue to provide and make the endowment and to regulate the mode of collection and payment in such a manner as to fix and ascertain the amount and periods of both and prevent any future abuses of one or misapplication of the other.
