In the place of the Colinga Branch School a Middle English School in connection with the Madrasah was started for Muhammadans in 1903 in the northern part of the Town.

Monthly fee, annas 8; average number of students, 117.

There are 18 Muhsin scholarships of Rs. 10, 8, 6, 4 and 3, respectively, awarded in the Arabic Department; 11 Muhsin scholarships of Rs. 5, 4, 3, respectively, in the Anglo-Persian Department; and a Scindia and Bhopal scholarship of Rs. 2-8. There are four Scholarships of Rs. 3, each tenable for one year in M.E. School.

In the College Department there are the following scholarships :-2 Muhsin scholarships and 3 Amir-i-kabir scholarships, each of Rs. 10, and tenable for two years, by students reading for the F.A. Examination. Two scholarships of Rs. 10 each, tenable for two years, are annually awarded to passed students of the Madrasah, continuing their studies for the B.A. degree in a Calcutta College.

The Elliott Madrasah Hostel, built from joint contributions of the Bengal Government and individual Muhammadan donors, has been opened since June, 1899. It occupies a site adjoining the Madrasah building and affords accommodation for 140 Muhammadan students attending either one of the several Madrasah Departments or some other affiliated College in Calcutta. Free boarderships, to the total number of 48, are provided from the donations of Sir Charles Elliott, Nawab of Dacca, Basharat Ali Chaudhari, Nawab of Murshidabad, Haji Quasim Arif, Monlvi Ali Ahmad, Nawab of Junagarh, National Mohammadan Association, Nawab Saher Bano Begum of Khagra Estate, Shaikh Muhammad Ali, Nawab Vilayat Ali Khan, Muhammadan Literary Society, Prince Sir Jehan Quader Moulvi Alimuddin.

The College is supported by Government, and is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, Eastern Bengal and Assam.

It was originally opened as a Zilla School in 1836 by the General Committee of Public Instruction. In January, 1869, it was raised to a Second Grade College, teaching up to the F.A. standard. A Law Department teaching up to the Pleadership Examination Standard was also added afterwards.

The monthly tuition fee in the College Department is Rs. 3; and in the Law Department Rs. 5; in the School it varies from Re. 1 in the lowest to Rs. 2-8 in the highest class.

There is an endowment scholarship called Rai Golakchandra Chaudhuri Bahadur's Scholarship, worth Rs. 6 a month, tenable at this College for two years and awardable every year to the successful candidate at the Entrance Examination, who stands next below the Government Junior Scholars from the District of Chittagong.

Attached to the College are a Hinda Hostel and a Buddhist Hostel, which are open to the students of the College and the Collegiate school.

This Institution was founded as a Zilla School in 1834, and was converted into a High School in 1873. Since the Government order of the 16th October, 1877, changing the nomenclature of Government Schools, it has been called the Midnapur Second Grade College. It is supported partly by Government and partly by the interest of an endowment fund, raised by the people of the district of Midnapur, amounting to Rs. 51,000 in Government Securities and Municipal Debentures. which had been under the control of the Director of Public Instruction and The management of the Institution, of a District School Committee, was made over by Government to the Local Municipality on the 1st of July, 1887, on the grant-in-aid system. consists of a College and a School Department. Into the former such students are admitted as have passed the University Entrance Examination and intend to work for the First Examination in Arts. The tuition fee in the College Department is Rs. 5 a month, and that in the School Department varies from one rupee in the lowest to three rupees in the highest class.

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A Law Department was also opened in 1873, and was affiliated to the Calcutta University up to the B.L. standard in June, 1892. The rate of fee for this department is Rs. 5 a month.

There is a gymnastic class attached to the College, in which boys are taught exercises according to European and Indian methods. A drill master has been appointed to train the boys in the European system of drill.

Local Scholarships and Medals.

One Luchman Prasad Garga Scholarship of Rs. 5 per mensem (now reduced to Rs. 4), tenable for two years, founded by the Zemindar of Moisadal, of that name, and one Ajodhyaram Khan Scholarship of Rs. 5 per mensem, tenable for two years, founded by Rajah Mahendra Lal Khan, Zemindar of Midnapur, to perpetuate the memory of his father, are awarded annually to the two most deserving students who pass the University Entrance Examination from the Collegiate School, but who fail to gain Government Scholarships, on condition that they prosecute their studies in this College.

One Luchman Prasad Garga gold medal of the value of about Rs. 32, endowed by the Zemindar of Moisadal of that name, is awarded annually to the student from the Midnapur College who passes highest at the F.A. Examination.

Four silver medals of the value of about Rs. 16 each, called the Harrison, the Martin, the Kali Prassanna Ray Chandhari, and the Bipin Behari Datta medal, are annually awarded to the best student of the Collegiate School in Mathematics, History, English Composition, and English language and literature respectively. The money for the Martin Medal fund was subscribed by the Bengali friends and admirers of the late R. L. Martin, Esq., Inspector of Schools, to commemorate his name. The rest were endowed by the donors whose names they bear. There is another silver medal called the "Abhaya Charan Medal," which is annually awarded to the candidate who obtains the highest marks in History and Geography among the successful Entrance candidates from the Collegiate School. The money for this medal was subscribed by the friends and students of the late Babu Abbaya Charan Bose, Head Master of the Collegiate School.

Offg. Lecturer in Sanskrit and History Jnanendrachandra Chatterji.
Lecturer in Persian

Maulavi Sudrudin Ahmed.

[Succession List of Principals.

1873-1884 Gangadhar Acharyya. 1884-1892 Syamacharan Das.

1892-1897 Haricharan Ray, M.A.
1897
R. L. Maitra, M.A.

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Wesleyan Central College, Batticaloa, Ceylon.

AFFILIATED, 1877.

The College prepares students for the Calcutta Entrance and F.A. Examinations, and for London College of Preceptors, and Cambridge Local Examination.

This Institution was founded in the year 1872 with the object of imparting education to students of the middle classes at moderate and convenient rates,

The College has been a self-supporting one from the beginning, being maintained entirely from fees. It consists of two departments, the English and the Vernacular, containing ten classes. The College Department was opened in 1881 teaching up to the standard of the First Examination in Arts. In the Vernacular classes both English and Bengali are taught, but the latter is used as the principal medium of instruction. Besides the branches rendered compulsory by University requirements, the College insists upon regular instruction in the principles of ethics, separate hours being set apart for lectures on that subject. There are classes also for music and elementary science.

An admission fee of Rs. 3 is charged to all students of the College Department, and the monthly tuition fee is Rs 3. In the School Department the rates of fee vary from one rupee in the lowest classes to three rupees in the highest.

This Institution, since its first establishment in 1817, has been one of slow but steady growth. True to its mission of supplying the demands of the public of Burdwan for education in the modern acceptation of the term, it has always kept pace with the real wants of the place. Started as an AngloVernacular School imparting rudimentary education, which satisfied the intellectual cravings of the Burdwan people of the early days of British rule in India, it passed through different stages of improvement, developed various phases of usefulness, and at last attained a recognised position as a second grade College in 1881.

The educational establishments of His Highness the Maharaja Adhiraj Bahadur divide themselves at the present time under five heads:

First, the College Department, which is open to all students that are matriculated in the Calcutta University, teaching up to the F.A. standard. Second, the School Department, serving chiefly as a feeder or tributary to the above, preparing students for the Calcutta University Entrance Examination.

Third, the Persian Department teaching, amongst others, those boys of the first two Departments that take up Persian as their second language. Fourth, the Sanskrit School, imparting instruction in the orthodox native style to those whose religious scruples prevent them from availing themselves of the advantages of the English School.