Memoir on Thar and

Hydrabad, while on a third occasion he declared his ancestors had received the estate
from the Chief of Veerawow.
145. The fact appears to have been, that the surrounding states were unequal to the task of
curbing the predatory spirit of the Bakasir Chief and his associates, with whom the
vicinity abounded; notwithstanding which, the Joudpoor troops, on more than one
occasion in the last century, appeared before and plundered Bakasir, while the Sindian
troops visited it with their vengeance also on two occasions, the latter in 1825, after
which it was left deserted, but shortly afterwards was again re-established.
146. The reason given for no revenue being taken from Bakasir by Joudpoor, was the
strength of its Chief and his banditti, its fort, and its situation among sand hills.
The above details are chiefly condensed from the Boundary Commissioners’ report, dated
in 1850, on demarking the Thurr and Parkur and Marwar boundary, by which Bakasir and
its dependent hamlets were transferred to Joudpoor, and thenceforth ceased to form a
portion of the Thurr and Parkur districts of British Sind.
Education.
147. In 1855, the Commissioner in Sind sanctioned the establishment of three schools in
the Thurr and Parkur,—one at Nuggur, Islamkote, and Mittee respectively. Schoolmasters
were obtained from Ahmedabad, and by the beginning of the following year, suitable
school-rooms were constructed at each of those places.
The number of boys receiving education is as follows: —
Nuggur 101
Islamkote 34
Mittee 35
As yet, nothing has been levied from the parents of the pupils; it is, however, intended
eventually to levy a small sum monthly for each student. It was necessary at first, in
districts where no signs of education had penetrated, and where the only people
indigenous to the locality who could use the pen was the mercantile class—who noted
down their dealings in hieroglyphics, somewhat resembling distorted Guzerathee
consonants, which only the author could decipher,—to commence gradually, for fear of
the institutions becoming unpopular; for there, as elsewhere in similar circumstances,
extreme ignorance and primitive ideas forbad the appreciation of the advantages of
education. Even now, though many of the pupils show great quickness and a desire to
learn, if a fee was levied, it is not improbable that numbers of parents would withdraw
their sons, rather than sustain very trifling expense for a future indefinite though infinite
advantage.
148. The cost of the educational establishment is Rupees 115 per mensem, as follows:—
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