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majority of the remaining thanas, where schools of learning, in greater or less number, are ascertained to exist.

 

District of Burdwan.

Thanas.			Bengali.	Sanscrit.	Persian.	Formal Arabic.	Learned Arabic.	English.	Girls.	Infants.
1.	Culna	. . .	73	37	6	. . .	1	1	1
2.	Purbasthal	. . .	33	18	3
3.	Ganguriya	. . .	16	7	1	. . .	1
4.	Rayana	. . .	72	14	10	2
5.	Selimabad	. . .	66	8	2
6.	Indas	. . .	43	6	8	329
7.	Mantreshwar	. . .	43	6	9
8.	Balkrishna	. . .	26	25	12
9.	Potna	. . .	53	12	9
10.	Cutwa	. . .	31	13	. . .	. . .	. . .	. . .	1
11.	Burdwan	. . .	37	2	10	1	3	2	2	1
12.	Mangalkot	. . .	45	10	4
13.	Ausgram	. . .	91	32	19
	Total	. . .	629	190	93	3	8	3	4	1

These thirteen thanas include the whole of the district which contains in all 931 schools of every class, averaging to each thana 71·6. There is no thana without both vernacular schools and schools of Hindu learning, and the number of each is greater than in any of the other districts I have visited.

 

District of South Behar.

Thanas.			Hindi.	Sanscrit.	Persian.	Arabic.	English.
1.	Jehanabad	. . .	52	2	33	5
2.	Sheherghati	. . .	13	. . .	29
3.	Daudnagar	. . .	10	7	23
4.	Aurungabad	. . .	7	3	23
5.	Arwal	. . .	17	1	16	1
6.	Nabinagar	. . .	13	. . .	2
7.	Behar	. . .	12	1	37	2
8.	Nawabada	. . .	37	. . .	2	2
9.	Sahebgunge	. . .	41	4	26
	Total	. . .	121	9	70	4	1