Evidence taken before the Bombay Provincial Committee and Memorials Addressed to the Education Commission, Vol. II (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1881), 223–242, 255–259, 261–270, 302–313, 11–14 (Appendix)

The character of their numerous publications can be judged with correctness from of prayers of the Ahmedabad Prarthana Samaj, a copy of which work the beg to tender herewith for the information of the Education Commission. In 1857 the principal Native inhabitants of Bombay memorialised the Government of Bombay against the use in the Elphinstone Institution of class-books prepared expressly for the use of children professing the Christian religion, abounding in lessons containing the doctrines and principles of Christianity. The following statistics contained in the last report of the Director of Public Instruction, Bombay, show that the distribution of grants-in-aid amongst the educational institutions established for different classes of the people in this Presidency can scarcely be deemed to be fair. As to the causes which have brought about the present unsatisfactory state of the Muhammadan society in India, your Memorialists beg to invite attention to the views expressed by the Honourable B. Tyabjee in his evidence before the Commission.