The total number of schools in the district is 605, averaging to each thana 67·3. The increase of Persian schools, nearly equalling the number of Hindi schools and accompanied by an increased number of schools of Arabic learning, is the fact which most arrests attention in this when compared with the preceding tables.
District of Tirhoot.
| Thanas. | Hindi. | Sanscrit. | Persian. | Arabic. | ||
| 1. | Bhawara | . . . | 5 | 7 | 1 | |
| 2. | Bahera | . . . | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
| 3. | Mozufferpur | . . . | 6 | . . . | 67 | 1 |
| 4. | Kurnaul | . . . | 4 | 2 | 7 | |
| 5. | Lalgunge | . . . | 7 | . . . | 27 | |
| 6. | Madhaipur | . . . | 4 | . . . | 1 | |
| 7. | Supaul | . . . | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
| 8. | Jala | . . . | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 9. | Khanjauli | . . . | 3 | 3 | 1 | |
| 10. | Hajipur | . . . | 10 | 3 | 16 | |
| 11. | Mohua | . . . | 1 | 5 | 22 | |
| 12. | Nagarbasi | . . . | 8 | 2 | 3 | |
| 13. | Dulsingh Serai | . . . | 7 | 14 | ||
| 14. | Darbhanga | . . . | 14 | 7 | 45 | 3 |
| 15. | Katra | . . . | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| 16. | Riga | . . . | 13 | 9 | ||
| Total | . . . | 80 | 56 | 234 | 4 | |
The total number of schools in the district is 374, averaging to each thana 23·3. The very small number of Hindi schools and the large proportion of Sanscrit and Persian schools deserve attention. There are two thanas in each of which there is only one vernacular school, and a third in which not even one is to be found. It will be seen also that the last-mentioned thana is the one in which there is the largest number of Sanscrit schools.
Section V.
Bengali and Hindi Schools.
The preceding general view of the number and classes of native institutions of education will serve for the purpose of comparison; comparison of one district with another, and of the different divisions of the same district. But to understand the state of native instruction, a more minute consideration of each
