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CHAPTER VI.

EDUCATION.

  • Education of males
  • Female education
  • Future prospects upon the increasing desire for learning
  • Notices of rich men's sons devoting themselves to study.

We now proceed to the consideration of the progress of education among the Parsees. Of all the natives of India this race has shown itself the most desirous of receiving the benefits of an English education; and their eagerness to drink the waters of the science and literature of the West has been conspicuous.

The commencement of the educational movement with the Parsees can only be dated as far back as twenty-five or thirty years ago. Before the establishment, in the year 1820, of the Bombay Native Education Society by the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, the great benefactor of the people of India, only a few schools existed at Bombay for imparting instruction in English. These seminaries were conducted by half-educated Indo-Britons, and

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