Sir Manockjee Cursetjee, a Parsee gentleman of Bombay,on education in India, 1865
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 nat
