The number of adults who can merely decipher writing or sign their names is 620, of whom 601 are Hindus and 19 are Musalmans.
District of Burdwan.
In thana Culna of this district the number of adults who have received a learned education, and are engaged in the business of teaching, is 38, of whom 37 are Hindus and one is a Musalman.
The number of adults who have received a learned education, and who are not engaged in the business of teaching, is 99, of whom 80 are Hindus and 19 are Musalmans.
The number of adults who have not received a learned education, and who are engaged in the business of teaching with attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 93, of whom 82 are Hindu teachers of 72 Bengali schools; 71 for boys and one for girls; nine are Musalman teachers of six Persian, two Bengali, and one English school; and two are Native Christian female teachers of a girls’ school.
The number of adults who have neither received a learned education, nor are engaged in the business of teaching, but who possess attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, are 2,424, of whom 2,271 are Hindus and 153 Musalmans.
The number of adults, who can merely read and write, is 2,304, of whom 2,115 are Hindus and 189 are Musalmans.
The number of adults who can merely decipher writing or sign their names is 2,350, of whom 2,100 are Hindus and 244 Musalmans.
District of South Behar.
In thana Jehanabad of this district the number of adults who have received a learned education, and are engaged in the business of teaching, is six, of whom one is a Hindu and five are Musalmans.
The number of adults who have received a learned education, and who are not engaged in the business of teaching, is 19, of whom nine are Hindus and 10 are Musalmans.
The number of adults who have not received a learned education, and who are engaged in the business of teaching with attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 53, of whom 26 are Hindu teachers of Nagri schools and 27 are Musalman teachers of Persian schools.
The number of adults who have neither received a learned education, nor are engaged in the business of teaching, but who
