and thirteen other teachers. Some of the Professors of the College Depart-ment take part in the instruction of the school classes.

XLIII.

Maharaja's College, Jaypur,

AFFILIATED, 1896.

The Maharaja's College, founded in 1844, is a free Institution supported entirely by the State. It was originally opened as a School; but its growing popularity and success having shown the neccessity of extending its sphere of usefulness, it was raised to the status of a College and affiliated in Arts of the Universities of Calcutta and Allahabad in 1873 and 1888, respectively, and re-affiliated up to the M.A. standard in 1896. The College now comprises the usual five Arts classes, and nine classes in the School Department. Attached to the College are a Gymnasinm, a Library and a Laboratory.

Connected with the Maharajah's College is the Rajput School, intended specially for the education of the sons of Rajput chiefs and noblemen of the State.

Under the supervision of the Principal, there are also an Oriental College and a Sanskrit College at Jaypur. In the Oriental College, which consists of the four classes in the higher section, and nine in the lower, Arabic and Persian are exclusively taught, and students are trained for the Oriental Examinations of the Punjab University.

The Sanskrit College is intended to give a complete course of instruction in Sanskrit. Sanskrit Grammar and Philology, Belles lettres, Philosophy. Law, Astronomy, Medicine, Vedanta and the Vedas are regularly taught here; and symtematic examinations are annually held and due titles conferred by the Department. It contains twelve classes giving instruction in the various branches of Sanskrit learning, and a preparatory School serving as a feeder to the upper classes.

The Maharaja's College is also the centre of a number of schools in the State which are in a manner affiliated to it and are under the direction of the Principal. These are divided into Middle, Primary and Elementary Schools.

There are at present about 50 such State Schools, besides about 700 private institutions maintained by Jagirdars, Missionaries, and private bodies or individuals.

Female Education likewise has the cordial support of the Durbar. There are seven Girls' Schools at Jaypur, under Miss E. Heming, the Lady Superintendent. Instruction is given in these schools up to the Middle Examination Standard.

In the College and in all the Schools in the State, education is free, no fees being charged to the pupils. Students, on passing a public examination from any such institution, also receive scholarships from the State, varying from Re. 1 to Rs. 20 a month tenable from two to four years.

A silver medal, founded by Lord Northbrook, in commemoration of His Excellency's visit to Jaypur in 1876, is annually awarded to the student of the Maharaja's College who stands first at the highest examination of the year.

and 12 Assistant Masters, three Pandits, and two Maulvies in the School Department.

This Institution was founded as a higher class English School on the 27th of June, 1884, by the late Babu Brajamohan Datta, Small Cause Court Judge of Nuddea, at the request of the District Education Committee, which had

been instructed by the Director of Public Instruction to secure the establishment of a private school, as the number of students in the Barisal Zila School had at that time exceeded 600, and the buildings were found too small for the accommodation of so many boys. Babu Brajamohan expressed a wish to raise the Institution to the status of a second grade College, but it could not be fulfilled on account of his sudden death. His sons, Babu Aswinikumar Datta and the late Babus Kaminikumar Dutta and Jaminkumar Datta, encouraged by the unexpected success of the Institution, and with a view to carry out the wishes of their deceased father, added the College classes, which have been affiliated up to the F.A. standard of the Calcutta University since June, 1889, and to the B.A. and B.L. standards since July, 1898.

The object of the Institution is to give to the students intellectual, physical and moral training without reference to sect or creed. Particular attention

is paid to the enforcement of discipline.

Quarterly statements showing the progess and conduct of the pupils in the School Department are sent to their parents for their remarks and suggestions. A Scholarship of Rs. 10 a month, named "The Bell Scholarship " after Mr. N. D Beatson-Bell, B.A., I.C.S., tenable for two years in the B.A. classes of this Institution, is awarded to the student who passes the F.A. Examination in the first divsion and fails to secure & Government Scholarship.

A Silver medal founded by Babu Chandra Sekhar Gupta, late Treasurer of the Currency Office, is awarded to the student who stands first among the successful Entrance candidates, provided he continues his studies in the F.A. classes of this College.

The tuition fee in the College Department is Rs. 3 a month.

XLV.

The Bhumihar Brahman College.

AFFILIATED, 1899.

This College was founded in July, 1899. It is the result of the zealous efforts of the local Bhumihar Brahman community to remove the crying want of a College at Mozufferpur, which had long been felt by the public of the place. With this view the Bhumihar Brahman Sabha met in March, 1899, and discussed the most feasible way of accomplishing their object. The authorities of the Society's High School, which was founded by the late Nawab Imdad Ali Khan, Bahadur, very generously came to their help and made over the School to the Sabha. The Sabha thereupon resolved to establish a College at Mozufferpur, and took the aforesaid Institution as its feeder. The College has been fortunate enough in enlisting the warm snmpathy and support of many public-spirited gentlemen of the town on its behalf. The object that the Sabha has in view, in founding this College, is the placing of the benefits of higher education within the reach of the students of North Behar, and the imparting of moral and physical training to them.

The College was first started, as a second grade one, on the 3rd July, 1899. An application was made in June, 1900, for the affiliation of the College to the Calcutta University, up to the B.A. standard. The Syndicate was pleased to recommend the affiliation, and the Governor-General's final sanction was obtained in the first week of the current year.

A sum of Rs. 50,000 has been set apart in trust for the maintenance of the College, and a registered trust deed, executed by Chodhri Mohanth Raghunath Dass, Zemindar of Jaintpur, Rai Purmeshwar Narayan Mahtha, Bahadur, Banker, Babu Langat Singh, Zemindar, and Babu Jugeshwarprasad Singh, Pleader, was submitted, along with the first petition for affiliation, to the Syndicate. Soon after the founding of the College it became apparent that Babu Langat Singh alone was to bear the whole of the expenses of the College. The trust fund in hand has consisted solely of his own donation, and nobody else came forward to help the College financially. Hence it is a fact that Babu Langat Singh alone has been supporting the College from its very beginning, and he is therefore the proprietor of the Institution.

The College has been furnished with a fine Laboratory and a well-stocked Library. It is proposed to establish a boarding-house in connection with the College as soon possible for the benefit of mofussil students, in which poor boys will be allowed free boarding and lodging.

The tuition fee for the College classes is Rs. 4, and that in the school Department varies from Rs. 2 to as. 8 a month.

One scholarship of Rs. 8 and six others of Rs. 4 each have been awarded to deserving students of the College Department. One of the six Scholarships of Rs. 4 each is called the "Fraser Scholarship," in honour of the Lieutenant Governor's visit to the College in January, 1904, and the others are also named after distinguished official visitors during the year.

One free studentship and ten half-free studentships also have been granted,

etc.

Nine free studentships and four half-free studentships also have been granted to poor boys at the commencement of the current session.

besides, there are three graduates and thirteen teachers in the School Depart

ment.

1.

Calcutta Madrasah.

AFFILIATED, 1867.

This Institution was founded by Warren Hastings in 1781, with the view of enabling Muhammadans of Bengal to acquire such a knowledge of Arabic Literature and Law as would qualify them for the Judicial Department, and was endowed by him with a Zemindary yielding an estimated rental of Rs. 29,000. In July, 1819, the zemindary was resumed and the rental was commuted to a fixed annual charge on the Treasury, of Rs. 30,000.

In 1873 the interest of the Muhammad Mushin Legacy, amounting to Rs. 51,000, which had previously been expended on the Hughli College, was set free, and was devoted to Muhammadan education in Bengal. Several new Madrasahs were founded; and the sum of Rs. 35,000, plus the schooling fees. changed afterwards to Rs. 31,000, was fixed as the annual charge of the Calcutta Madrasah and Colinga Branch School.

The Institution, which is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, consists of three Departments. In the Arabic Department, Arabic and Persian Literature, History, Logic, Rhetoric and Muhammadan Law, are taught. The course extends over six years. The students of the four senior classes are prepared for the corresponding standards of the Central Examination of Bengal Madrasahs, conducted by the Principal of the Calcutta Madrasah as Registrar under the orders of the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal. A fifth-year class was opened in 1903 for giving instruction in Hadis and Tafsir, Arabic Literature, Logic, &c.

Of modern sciences, Arithmetic and Geometry (taught in vernacular) were made in 1874 a compulsory part of the course. Instruction in special classes is provided for those students who desire to take up the study of the English language as an optional subject. The monthly fee is eight annas; average number of students, 425.

The College Department is a second-grade College (established in 1884) and teaches up to the F.A, standard. The monthly fee is Rs. 2; average number, 45. For teaching purposes it had been amalgamated with the Presidency College, since July 1888, the students of the Madrasah College attending the former College for their lectures.

The Anglo-Persian Department into which has been merged the Colinga Branch School, is a Collegiate School, and teaches up to the Entrance Examination. The monthly fee is Re. 1; average number, 424.