Regional History of Punjab by G Singh .pptx

During the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, funding was given by the royal court to the schools affiliated to the various religious communities. Schools for girls were also opened in many places. Near the end of his rule in the 1830s, Ranjit Singh also started to encourage the learning of English, for which a Christian teacher was hired in a school in

1. History of Punjab By G Singh

2. History History [ edit ] During the rule of  Maharaja Ranjit Singh , funding was given by the royal court to the schools affiliated to the various religious communities. Schools for girls were also opened in many places. Near the end of his rule in the 1830s, Ranjit Singh also started to encourage the learning of  English , for which a  Christian  teacher was hired in a school in  Lahore . [1] The first  printing press  in Punjab using  Gurmukhi  script was established in  Ludhiana  in 1835 by a Christian mission. The first Punjabi  dictionary  was published in 1854 by Reverend J. Newton. [2]  Missionary schools were established in Jalandhar (1848), Ludhiana (1851) and Amritsar (1853). Following the example of the missionaries government soon started establishing primary schools in cities and large towns and the district officers opened and started maintaining schools with local funds in minor areas. The subjects taught in these schools included English,  Geometry ,  Geography  and  Persian ,  Arabic  and  Urdu  languages. [3]  Starting from late 1877, Punjabi became one of the languages in which students could be examined at  Punjab University . [4]

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