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BAH At

present the main lines of

189

traffic lie in

the north

,of

the district to

on the Gogra, while the gi-ain of the Main lines of traffic, eastern parganas for the most part finds its way to Nawabganj opposite Fyzabad, going by the Gonda road. The whole of the produce of the Bahraich, Fakhrpur, and Hisampur parganas, however, and a very large portion of the through-traffic from Naipal, is brought down to Colonelganj (now transferred to Gonda) and to Bahramghat, whence it is either sent down the river or passes on to Lucknow.* ^^^lairighat

Of manufactures

there

may

be said to be none. Everj^ pargana has its with small colonies af weavers who turn out a fair quantity of coarse cloth, and Bahraich itself boasts of some very good felt, the manufacture of which is a speciality of villages,

.

J-

that town and Jarwal. Education.

Four

The Government

classes of schools,

1st.

— —

in

._

which prepare their pupils for matriculation in the Calcutta University.

^Zila schools,

271x1.

^Middle-class English, or, as they are also called, English schools,

which prepare youths schools,

to

town

for ordinarj' clerkships, &c.

which give the best —Vernacular town be given in the vernacular. —Village schools similar English national

2rd.

4i/i.

schools in this district as

^^j^^^^ ^^^ ^f f^^^. ^j^g^^g

educatio'n that can

schools,

where the

general population can be well grounded in the rudiments. is the zila school with 105 boys and 6 masters while there are three branch schools in the suburbs The zila schools. ^-^j^ ^ masters each and 50, 41 and 40 boys, respecPersian, English, and Urdu are taught tively total number of boys, 236. at this zila school, Nagri only at one of the branches, and Urdu only at the other two. The cost of these establishments is about Es. 420 per

In Bahraich town there

mensem. the tahsils of the Edja-e-R^jgan of Kaplirthala, there are two English town schools ; that at Baundi EngHsh town schools. ^^^^^ >jq ^^y^ and 3 masters, that at Ikauna 50 The cost of these schools, Es. 176 per mensen, is masters. 8 boys and borne half by Government and half by the Eaja-e-Edjgan. There is also a school of this class at Bhinga maintained entirely by the taluqdar

At Baundi and Ikauna,

with 79 pupils. This schools there is only one, viz., at Nanpara. has 74 boys and 2 masters, its cost being Es. 46 per mensem; but Nawab Nisar Ali Khan supports a somewhat similar school with 43 boys at Nawabganj

Of Vernacular town Vernacular schools.

town

Aliabad in the Charda pargana.

feet

is kept up on the Sarju river ; boats drawing three leaving it at Kamyarghat, they load gram at Banjanaghat This avoids some cart carriage to the bank of the Gogra.

An internal trade during the rains come up from the Gdgra

near Bahraich.