Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/264

204 schools whom he supports at his own expense. The remuneration of the paid teachers is as follows:—

Thus 86 paid teachers receive in all rupees 573-11, averaging to each rupees 6-1.0-8 per month.

Out-houses, baithak-khanas, chandi-mandaps, and kachharis are employed as school-houses here as elsewhere, the place occupied generally belonging to the principal supporter of the school, and sometimes to the teacher himself. In one instance, one of the scholars in a Persian school, in payment of the instruction he receives, supplies the teacher with a school-house rent-free. Of the Persian schools, about a dozen have school-houses expressly built for that purpose, and varying in the estimated cost of erection from six rupees to two hundred. Three of the Arabic schools have buildings estimated to have cost 50, 200 and 250 rupees respectively. Another has a school-house with a dwelling-house attached, in the upper-story of which the teacher lives, while the scholars are lodged below. Two of them have large endowments, with buildings estimated to cost, in one instance 15,000, and in the other 50,000, rupees. Each endowment is applied to the support not only of a school, but of a hospital, a mosque, and a sacred relic.

In 104 schools there are 971 scholars, averaging 9.3 to each school. Of the total number 17 are engaged in the formal reading of the Koran, 899 in the perusal of Persian works, and 55 in the study of Arabic learning. All the Koran-readers are Musalmans; of the Persian scholars, 451 are Musalmans and 448 are Hindus; and of the Arabic students, 51 are Musalmans and 4 are Hindus. Of the four Hindu students of Arabic, two are of the Aguri caste, one is a Kayastha, and one a Teli. The following are the castes and numbers of the 448 Hindus who are Persian scholars :—