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150 and two other individuals of consideration, each established a School, the former of whom subsequently transferred his School to English superintendance. From the earliest stage, one third of the children in attendance at the Schools were Bramins. At first a Bramin boy would not sit down on the same mat with one of another cast. The teachers also made the same objection, which has of late been voluntarily relinquished.

the preceding pages, the reader will be prepared to expect the rapid progress and full success of  experimental institutions, and it will not be necessary, therefore, to trace with minuteness, the further circumstances, which led to this happy result. In consequence of the great demand for the establishment of Village Schools, the Government was induced to enlarge it’sits [sic] monthly donation to 800 Rs. It was already evident, from the experience of three years, that the natives were eager to receive the benefits of knowledge, communicated to them on those principles of reason, discretion, and good faith, which the Government has uniformly inculcated, and that under a