SSA - DEEP Annual Work Plan 2003-2004 District Ludhiana (Punjab)

Abstract

From Education: According to Dr. Leitner there was not a mosque, a temple, Dharamshala that had not a school attached to it, to which the youth flocked chiefly for religious education. There were also secular schools frequented alike by Mohammedans, Hindus and Sikhs in which Persian or Lande were taught. The state of education in Ludhiana district in the middle of the 19th century was both antiquated and backward. According to the Ludhiana Settlement Report of 1853 there were some sixty schools where the children of the mercantile class received education. According to 1881 Census there were 8,580 students (4,235 in Government/aided schools, 4,345 in private schools).