द ब्यूटीफुल ट्री: १८वीं सदी में भारत की स्वदेशी गुरुकुल शिक्षा (धर्मपाल)

Teaching of Accounts Regarding the content of elementary teaching, Adam mentioned various books which were used in teaching. These varied consid- erably from district to district, but all schools in the surveyed districts, except perhaps the 14 Christian schools, taught ac- counts. Also, most of them taught both commercial and agricultural accounts. Table 13 gives a district-wise statement: Table 13: ACCOUNTS TEACHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS The age of admission in elementary schools varied from 5 to 8 years, and, that of leaving school from 13 years to 16.5 years. Institutions of Sanskritic Learning The schools of Sanskritic learning in the surveyed districts (in all 353) numbered as high as 190 in Burdwan (1,358 scholars) and as low as 27 in South Behar (437 scholars). The teachers (355 in all) were predominantly Brahmins, only 5 being from the Vaidya caste. The subjects predominantly taught were Grammar (1,424 students), Logic (378 students), Law (336 students) and Litera- ture (120 students). Others, in order of numbers studying them, were Mythology (82 students), Astrology (78 students), Lexicology (48 students), Rhetoric (19 students), Medicine (18 students), Vedanta (13 students), Tantra (14 students), Mimansa (2 students), and Sankhya (1 student). The duration of the study and the ages when it was started and completed varied a great deal from subject to subject, and also from district to district. 55