Life and light for woman . stationby Messrs. Graves, Hervey and Read, in December, 1831. As is well known, the early missionaries in India gave muchattention to education, believing that to gather the children intoschools, and to train up, if possible, a generation of intelligentmen and women, was to lay the best foundation for the evangeli-zation of the country. At the time of the occupation of Ahmed-nuggur, it was estimated that one-tenth of the adult males, andperhaps one-eighth of the boys and quite young men, were able toread. A female might occasionally be found who could readrespectably
Life and light for woman . stationby Messrs. Graves, Hervey and Read, in December, 1831. As is well known, the early missionaries in India gave muchattention to education, believing that to gather the children intoschools, and to train up, if possible, a generation of intelligentmen and women, was to lay the best foundation for the evangeli-zation of the country. At the time of the occupation of Ahmed-nuggur, it was estimated that one-tenth of the adult males, andperhaps one-eighth of the boys and quite young men, were able toread. A female might occasionally be found who could readrespectably, though they were very few, possibly one in a little reading there was, was mostly confined to coarse fie- THE AHMEDNUGGUR BOARDING-SCHOOL, 26V tion, as all matters of science, history and religion had been settledby their ancestors, and written in their shastres; so that all fartherreading, writing or discussion on these subjects was vain andimpious. People of all classes were glad to have their boys taught. to read and write and keep accounts, but there was the usualOriental prejudice agamst female education It was and is acurrent proverb among Hnidus and Mussulmans, that a womansmsdom should not extend beyond the oven. She need know 268 LIFE AND LIGHT. nothing more than how to make her hnsbancFs bread. Consider-able success, however, had followed the girls schools among thelower classes in Bombay—so much, indeed, that the Brahminsbegan to thnik of educating their daughters in their own houses,fearing the Shaddra women would be superior to their own if thelatter were left untaught. In consideration of this success in Bombay, in less than twomonths after the arrival of the missionary families m Ahmednug-gur, a girls school was opened; and in the autumn of 1832 therewere three girls schools in good running order, taught by educated,though not Christian, natives, and supported by the generousbenevolence of the ladies residing at the station. These wereentirely u
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