भारतीय शिक्षा का सर्वनाश ११२७ यह सारी कहानी मद्रास प्रान्त की है। ठीक इसी तरह की कहानी, महाराष्ट्र और बम्बई प्रान्त के विषय में एलफिन्सटन ने सन् १८२४ की एक सरकारी रिपोर्ट में बयान किया है, किन्तु उसे दोहराना व्यर्थ है । schools and the system by which the more advanced scholars are aused to teach the less advanced, and at the same time to confirm their own kno ledge, is certainly admirable, and एwel deserved the initation it has received in England . , there are multitudes who can not even avail themselves of the advantages of the system, " I am sorry to state, that this is ascribable to the gradual but general impovernshnent of the country. The means of the manufacturing classes Bhave been of late years greatly diminised by the introduction of our own English manufactures in lier of the Indian cotton fabrics, The removel of प्रmany of our troops from our own erritories to the distant frontiers of our newly subsidized allies has alsoof late yers afected the demand tor grain ; the transfer of the capital of the country from the native government and thetr oficers, who liberally expended it in India, to Europeans, restricted by aw from employing it even temporarily in India, and daily draining it fro। the land, has like wise tended to this effect, which has not been alleviated by a less rigid enforcement of the revenue due to the state. The greater part of the middling and lower class es of the people are now unable to defrny the expenses incident upon the education of their ofspring, while their necessi. ties require the assistance of their children as soon as their tender limbs are capable of the smallest labour. of nearly a million of souls in tlhis District, not 7,000 are n09 at school, a proportion which exhibits but too strongly the regult above। stated. in many villages where formerly taere were large schools, there are now none, and in many others where there were large schools, ow only a 4ew children of the most opulent are taught, others being unable fron। powerty to attend w such is the state in this District of the various Schools in which
