REPORT

OF THE

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

BOMBAY,

FOR THE YEAR 1857-58.

BOMBAY :

PRINTED AT THE EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, BYCULLA.

1859.

Letter from Lord Ellenborough, President of the Board of

Control, to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the

Court of Directors, dated 28th April 1858

(note)

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9.

Memorandum by Sir G. R. Clerk, K.C.B., Secretary of the

India Board, dated 29th March 1858

Remarks on

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(note) 13

Resolution of Government on Correspondence and State-

ments relative to the alleged infraction of Government

orders by Ardaseer Framjee, teaching Christianity in his

class in the Elphinstone Institution

Suggestions of Sir George Clerk ..

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School-Books

Vernacular School-Books

Murathee Literature ..

Duxina Fellows ..

Scheme for Duxina Fellowships

Murathee School-Books..

Books published by the Duxina Prize Committee

Murathee Books urgently wanted

Guzerathee Translator to the Educational Department

Guzerathee Inspector..

Hindoostanee

Canarese..

..

School-Book Department

Cheapening of School-Books..

Remarks

Conditions of future Educational Expansion

The partially Self-Supporting System

The Grant-in-Aid System

Arguments of Mr. Hope, Inspector for Guzerat, in favour of

an enactment to authorise the levy of a compulsory edu-

cational rate..

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(note) 56 c

Bill, to enable the inhabitants of towns, villages, and other

places under the Presidency of Bombay, to make better

provision for the establishment and maintenance of Schools

of Secular Learning

University

Affiliated Colleges

Elphinstone College

New Professors

Private Study..

A College Building wanted

Requisites

General Remarks

Poona College

..

Improvement of the College..

Reform of the Sanscrit Department.

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Mr. Sinclair's Report on Mathematics and Natural Philo-

sophy (Elphinstone Institution)

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