Friday, June 7, 2024

education in India, 1865.

 

View of '...the meeting, on Friday, of the Educational Department, Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P., presiding, when Sir Manockjee Cursetjee, a Parsee gentleman of Bombay, not less distinguished by his liberality and enlightenment than by his wealth and commercial position, made an interesting statement with regard to the improvement of female education in India, of which he has long been a zealous and influential promoter. He described the means by which, two years ago, an institution was opened at Bombay for the education of a limited number of daughters of respectable ...