Title: Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838
Description: A description of indigenous education in north India in the early nineteenth century, at a time when traditional Sanskrit and Muslim educational networks were in their last decades before the British government started to take over local revenues and educational trust funds  and redirect the monies to English education, on the assumption that education would trickle down from Calcutta to the provinces.
Subjects: Bengal, Education, India, Bihar, History, Education; India; Colonialism; Sanskrit; Bengal; Schools; Teaching methods; land revenue; taxation
Places: Bengal, Bihar
Time periods: 1800-1850