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The Calcutta Madrasah, thus, continued as the only centre of Muslim education and culture and the hopes of the Musalmans of Bengal naturally clungto it.
As a result of this Despatch the University of Calcutta was established in 1857, which developed and organised the English system of education already in• troduced under the Despatch of 1837.
As already mentioned, with the introduction of English education which superseded the Madrasah system as a passport to Government services and other avenues· in' public life, the Musalmans began to lose their 'ground in every walk of life, especially political and social.
As a mark of disapproval of the resolution of this Conference,the Provincial Educational Conference of Eastern Bengal and Assam, held at Mymensingh in 1908, urged upon their Government to appoint a' strong' Committee for the reform and re-organisation of the Mad• rasah system.
When Lord Hardinge visited Dacca in the year 1912, before the annulment of the Bengal Partition, a deputation of the leading members of the community waited upon him, praying for the in• troduction of the Reformed Scheme,as worked out by the successivecommittees appointed for the purpose and also for its incorporation with the University system.
" Subse• quently the Dacca University Committee, appointed in May, 1912, with Sir Robert Nathan as President, thrash• ed out the whole question of the Reformed Scheme and recommended the establishment of an Islamic Department as an integral part of the new University.
Collegesin the three divisions of East Bengal, forming a connectinglink between the Madrasah system Department of the Dacca University.