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EDUCATION AND CULTURE
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
ABOUT THE CENTRES OF LEARNING IN ANCIENT, MEDIAEVAL AND
EARLY MODERN TIMES no precise and exact records are available.
However, there might have existed some sort of a system of
imparting education to the local populace and that might have
been education by heritage.
Yeotmal, with the rest of Berar, was assigned to the East India Company by the Nizam following the Treaty of 1853.
Before the Assignment [Yeotmal District Gazetteer, 1908, pp. 203-205.] no schools were supported by Government and the condition of keeping a school was never attached to grants of land or money. There were Brahman schools for religious education at Wun and Umarkhed, and probably a few elementary schools elsewhere. No doubt a few learned Muhammedans also gave religious instruction.
According to the Gazetteer for the Hyderabad Assigned Districts Hindu teaching was always given for a fee, but Muhammedan teaching for the public was invariably free. Boys of the lowest castes were never admitted into these schools. About the number of schools, statistics are not available. However, in 1874 there was only one indigenous school in Yeotmal taluk and in 1875 when one out of every 180 of the population of the old Wun taluk was in a Government school, only one out of every 100 could read and write.
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