INCLUDING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN BEHAR AND A CONSIDERATION OF THE MEANS ADAPTED TO THE IMPROVEMENT AND EXTENSION OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN BOTH PROVINCES.
By WILLIAM ADAM.
“The disposition to maintain and the skill to improve are the two elements the union of which forms the great statesman.”—Burke.
“No system for any part of the municipal administration (of India) can ever answer that is not drawn from its ancient institutions or assimilated with them.”—Sir Thomas Munro.
SECTION I.
Progress of the Inquiry.
I was originally appointed by Lord William Bentinck’s government to conduct inquiries into the state of native education in Bengal only, and I subsequently received authority from the present Government to extend them into the province of Behar. In Bengal, the districts that have been visited are those of Rajshahi, Moorshedabad, Beerbhoom, and Burdwan; and in Behar, those of South Behar, and Tirhoot.
My appointment by the Governor General in Council is dated 22nd January 1835, placing me under the orders of the General Committee of Public Instruction, whose instructions I received dated 7th March. On the 8th of April I obtained the authority of the Committee, before proceeding into the interior of the country, to report the amount of information possessed in existing publications and official documents on the subject of native education in Bengal, and such a Report was accordingly submitted to
