" To ensure mainly bright 9-year-old boys from the indigent strata joined these schools" .............................................. indigent
adjective
Having little or no money or wealth: beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken. Informal broke, strapped. Idioms: hard up, on one's uppers.
noun
An impoverished person: beggar, down-and-out, down-and-outer, have-not, pauper. ..................................
This was a bright, smart and secure way to create Future Officers from those who would have otherwise been Jawans.
