Gazetteer of the Kangra district vol.1 (Kangra proper 1883-84)

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1CHAP. V.—ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE. O07

2years, which expired in 1579. The incidence of the fixeddemand per Chapter V, A

3acre as it stood in 1878-79 was Re 1-5-3 on cultivated, Re. 1-4-3 General

4on culturable,and Re. 0-8-1 on total area. The statisties given in Administration.

5the following tables throw some light upon the working of the Settle-

6ment :—Table No, XXX1—Balances, remissions, and takdvi ad-

7vances. Tabla No. XXX11—Sales and mortgages of land. Tables

8Nos. X XXIII and XXXIU1A.— Registration. |

9Table No. XX XVII gives figures for the Governmentand aided, —=—-Edjucatiom.

10district, middle and primary schools of the district. The district

11school is at Narpur; there are middle schools for boys at Palampur,

12Kangra, Kulu and Sujanpur, while primary schools are situated in

13the several tahstls as follows :—Kilu, two, Kangra, ten ; Hamirpur,

14ten; Dehr4, six; Nurpur, seven; also female schools for girls at

15Sujanpur, Nadaun, Haripur and Narpur. With the exception of the

16district school at Nurpur and the mission school at Kangra, all these

17schools are under the immediate supervision of a District Inspector

18of Schools, There is also an aided primary school at Kyelang in

19Lahaul, anda small mission school at Nerinand in outer Seordj.

20The district lies within the Lahore Cirele, which forms the charge of

21the Inspector of Schools at Lahore. Table No. XIII gives statiatics

22of education collected at the Census of 1881; and the general state

23of education has already been described at pages 69,70. There are

24no private or indigenous schools worthy of notice.

25“The old town school at Narpur in the Kangra district was - Nirpor district

26raised to the status of a district school in 1864, and is situated in a echool,

27rtion of the old fort said to have been built by the Empress Nurja-

28Nurpur at that time was a flourishing town of 12,000 souls,

29prosperous and wealthy owing to the Kashmir shawl trade, Its

30progress was therefore marked up to some time after the Franco-

31German War. ‘The prosperity of the town, and with it that of the

32_ school, began to decline between 1870 and 1873, during which time

33Nirpur was visited by epidemics of cholera and fever, Hundreds

34of Kashmiris left the town to seek employment elsewhere. Niirpur

35contains now about 5,000 inhabitants, most of whom are in poor

36circumstances, scarcely able to send their children to school as scon

37as they reach an age when they earna living. The school suffers

38“oinpass Gama but is maintained in a fairly satisfactory condition

39by the liberality of the municipality which contributes a small month-

40ly sum for scholarships, and by an efficient staff of teachers, who

41maintain good discipline among the pupils and the few boarders

42residing near the school, and insure a fair intellectual progress. The

43school is managed by a head master, assisted by four teachers on the

44sanctioned and eight others on the grant-in-aid establishment. The

45school contains a middle department, teaching up to the middle school

46Anglo-vernacular standard, an upper and a lower primary depart-

47meut,an Urdu branch in the Danga bdzdr, and a Hindi branch in

48Niazpur. The expenditure, as well as the total of pupils under

49instruction and the number of boys who passed the middle school

50examination between the years 18783 aud 1883, will be seen from ihe

51table on the next page.

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