Excerpt from State Education for the People With the organisation of State Education in 1854, and with the educational activity which immediately preceded its introduction, the scene changed. Different tests of fitness were exacted, and a new order of men came to the front. The list showed that out of 240 Native Pleaders admitted from 1852 to 1868, no fewer than 239 were Hindus and only one survivor was a Musalman. Passing to the next grade in the profession, the attorneys, proctors and solicitors of the High Court of Calcutta, on the side of Original Jurisdiction, there were in 1869 twenty-seven Hindus and not one Musalman. Among the rising generation of articled clerks there were twenty-six Hindus and again not one Musalman. Alike there fore in higher official employments, and in the higher practice of the law, the Muhammadans had fallen out of the race in Bengal before the end of the first fifteen years of State Education on the lines laid down in 1854. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.