QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BENARES.

AFFILIATED IN ARTS, 1888; IN SCIENCE, 1896.

Queen's College, Benares, is supported by Government and is under the control of the Director of Public Instruction, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. It is divided into College and School Departments, the former under the immediate charge, and the latter under the supervision of the Principal.

ENGLISH COLLEGE.

This College, teaching Arts up to the M.A. Standard, and also affiliated in Science, has a School Department attached to it. The tuition fees vary from Rs. 10 to Rs. 8 per mensem in the College and from Rs. 3 to 4 annas in the School Department. Each class has its fixed rate of fee. The College and School are accessible to all classes on payment of an entrance fee of Rs. 2 and Re. 1-8 respectively. Government scholarships are awarded according to the results of the University and departmental Examinations. There are also local scholarships, amounting to about Rs. 150 per mensem, in the College Department.

Connected with this College is a Boarding-House for district students.

Besides twenty-one English Teachers, one Writing Master, two Pandits, two Maulvis, one Drawing Master.

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CANNING COLLEGE, LUCKNOW.

AFFILIATED IN ARTS, 1888; IN SCIENCE, 1896; IN
LAW, 1888.

This College, founded by the Taluqdars of Oudh in memory of the late Earl Canning, was opened on the 1st of May, 1864. The institution comprises three departments, the College proper, a Law Department, and an Oriental Department, in which only Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic are taught.

Canning College is supported by the Taluqdars of Oudh aided by Government. By a Sanad, duly executed, the Taluqdars unanimously endowed the College in perpetuity with a percentage of the revenues of their taluks. This sum, amounting on an average to forty-one thousand rupees per annum, is collected by the officers of Government, and is deposited in the Government Treasury for the use of the College. A Government grant-in-aid to the amount of twenty-five thousand rupees is also enjoyed by the College. The total income from endowment, grant-in-aid, invested funds and fees aggregates eightyone thousand rupees per annum.

The institution is open to all classes, and its object, as declared by the rules, is to impart instruction in the English Language and Literature, in Mathematics and Science, in Law and in the Oriental Classical Languages. Its management is vested in a Committee consisting of

the Commissioner of Lucknow, the Deputy Commissioner, the Inspector of Schools, Oudh Circle, District Judge, the Executive Engineer, the Principal, and the representatives of the Taluqdars. The fee for the College classes is-Rs. 6 for the Intermediate class, Rs. 7-8 for the B.A. class, and Bs. 9 for the M.A. class. The Committee reserve to themselves the right of admitting Oudh students to the free list, or of admitting them on a modified fee. The fee for the Law classes is-for Arts students Rs. 4 for the first year and Rs. 6 for the second year, and for outsiders Rs. 5 for the first year and Rs. 8 for the second year. The admission fee is Rs. 3 for all classes.

In addition to Government scholarships, there are local scholarships to the value of Rs. 170 per mensem.

THE MUHAMMADAN ANGLO-ORIENTAL

COLLEGE, ALIGARH.

AFFILIATED IN ARTS, 1888; IN LAW, 1889.

This institution has been established by the educated and more advanced portion of the Muhammadans of Upper India, under the leadership of Sir

Sayed Ahmad, Khan Bahadur, K.C.S.I., LL.D. The objects in view are to place the benefits of liberal education within the reach of the Muhammadan community who have markedly failed to avail themselves of Government educational institutions; and to reconcile the Muhammadans to the study of Western science and literature by founding a scheme adapted to meet the special educational wants of the Muhammadan community. However, the institution is catholic in its character and is open to students of every creed and

race.

This institution was first opened as a school in June, 1875, and in January, 1878, it was converted into a College, and was from the beginning of that year affiliated to the University of Calcutta up to the Standard of the First Arts Examination. In Arts the College has been affiliated to that University up to the B.A. Standard from the 1st January, 1881, and in Law it has been affiliated up to the B.L. Standard from the 1st January, 1883.

In the College and School attached to it all subjects are taught in the English language, and Arabic, Persian or Sanskrit is taken as the classical language.

All the Muhammadan students are taught Theology in Persian or Arabic, according to their sect, i.e., Sunnis according to the Sunni sect, and Shias according to the Shia sect.

The College is governed by Trustees, for whose guidance laws and regulations have been passed on December 28th, 1889.

AGRA COLLEGE, AGRA.

AFFILIATED IN ARTS, 1889; SCIENCE, IN 1896;
IN LAW, 1889.

In 1818 Ganga Dhar Shastri bequeathed to the East India Company the rents of certain lands in the districts of Aligarh and Muttra for the promotion of education. In accordance with Shastri's will, Agra College was opened in 1823, the endowment then yielding over Rs. 22,000 a year. Subsequently Government added to the income and raised the College to its present status.

In 1883 the management was transferred to a Board of Trustees. The College now receives annual grants of Rs. 12,000 from Government and Rs. 2,500 from the Municipality of Agra, in addition to the original endowment. At the time of the transfer the Trustees made an appeal to the noblemen and Gentlemen of the Province of Agra, and a lakh of rupees was added to the endowment, while the capital of the Scholarship Fund was raised from Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 45,000. The Maharajas of Gwalior and Bhartpur maintain additional scholarships.

The immediate control of the College is in the hands of a Committee, two of the members of which are official, the rest nominated by the Trustees.

The College consists of two Departments, viz., the College proper under a Principal, and the School under