Bulletin de l'instruction primaire des Établissements français dans l'Inde. Issues 1 to 6 (1894) and 1 to 11 (1895) (1894/1895)

Vol and Issue: Issues 1 to 6 (1894) and 1 to 11 (1895)

Missing issue: issue 12 (1895). Other missing pages: 25-28 ; 225-226 (1895).

Scope and content: This is a bound volume for the years 1894 and 1895. It contains pedagogical material, including pedagogical lectures and book lists; information relating to examinations (dates, subjects, results etc.); administrative communications and instructions from the inspector of primary education to schools; extracts of reports made by him; inspection notes; classification of teaching staff; nominations/transfers; some government orders relating to education; fixing of holidays; prize distribution etc. The subjects of examinations include indigenous languages. This is where the short portions in Tamil language appear along with their French translation. The issue 9 of 1895 contains a report on the situation of primary education in French India as on 31st July 1895. It includes information on private schools and statistics of students (boys/girls) based on religious and age criteria. The fold-outs carry either time-tables/programmes or statistical data.