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Title: The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868 Roberts, Emma, 1794?-1840
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Publisher: London, New York : The London printing and publishing company, ltd.
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y. The reputation for sanctity which this city possesses in the estimation of all Hindoos,renders it an especial point of attraction to pilgrims from most parts of Lidia. A great number of these devotees being exceedingly poor, subsist wholly upon charity, and are,consequently, often reduced to a state of the most abject misery. Many of the native residents of Benares are men of extraordinary Avealth, and, as diamond merchants and bankers, have occasionally rendered great service to the state by facilitating the monetary transactions of the East India Company. Benares is also celebrated as having been, in ancient times, a principal seat of Brahminical learning, and its educational status has not been deteriorated by the rule of its English masters. At the time of the establishment of the British empire in India, the schools of Benares weic found to be in a declining condition ; but an impulse was shortly afterwards given to the progress of native intelligence, by the establishment of tha mp
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Hindoo Sanscrit college, in 1791, to which an English class was added in 1827. An unfortunate notion that prevails among the native teachers (many of whom are eminent scholars), that were they to accept any remuneration for their labours, all the religious merit of teaching the Vedas would be lost, restrains them from receiving any benefit from the professorships attached to the institution; and as they will not accept payment from their scholars, they are chiefly dependent upon the donations and pensions of the rajahs and wealthy pilgrims who visit the sacred city. For the above reason, the Hindoo college has never flourished to the extent anticipated by its founders. During the present century many schools have been established in Benares, both by the assistance of the government, and the endowments of native benefactors. In 1843,the province contained six important scholastic foundations, under the inspection of a council of education, established at Calcutta in the previous year. Of these,

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