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136 PAR 17 schools. 19 14 35 9) Village schools.-- With regard to village schools the district may be said to be studded with them - In Tahsil Patti are Partabgarh Kund > The attendance has been falling off of late, owing chiefly to high prices and to the impoverished circumstances of the agricultural classes, which furnish the largest proportion of pupils. The pressure has the effect of causing the parents to withdraw their sons from the school, and transfer them to the field, where their labours prove more directly remunerative. A succession of good harvests will, I have no doubt, by and bye, put money in the pockets of the husbandman, and restore a good attendance in the schools. The curriculum is reading and writing, elementary arithmetic,dieta- tion, grain mar, and composition, gcography, the history of India, mensura- tion of surfaces and land surveying. There are 66 boys in this district, who, as members of the senior class, are learning these latter subjects. Of the sons of zamindars, actual proprietors or under-proprietors in the soil, 316 are students in the village schools, while of others the numbers are: 1) 00 Sons of patwáris and qanungos , cultivators , artizans traders and bankers ... » professional men such as pandits, hakins, &c. Government servants ... priyute servants 162 495 129 76 92 32 46 93 SE 99 >>> 13 . 100 Total 1,030 Of Hindus, the Chhattri caste as usual preponderatos, next comes the Brahman, then the Káyath, the remainder being contributed by the Sudra classes. The proportion of Muhammadan to Hindu students is 369 per cent., which having regard to the relative numbers of the whole population, would seem to indicate a greater desire to avail themselves of the educational opportunities offered them, on the part of the former than of the latter. Sixty-three teachers find employment in the village schools of this district, and are in receipt of salaries ranging from Rs. 10 to š. The majority receive Rs. 6 to 7. It will be a good thing for the department when circumstances will admit of the salaries of teachers being raised. The qualifications of several entitle them to higher emolu- ments. Girls' school.--Female education may be said to have made a beginning, though a modest one in this district. A girls' school has been opened at Nawabganj under the superintendence of the active and intelligent deputy inspector, Munshi Muhammad Husen. The pupils at present only number thirteen, but small beginning in a work of such vital importance, viewed in reference to the enlightenment of the massos, are not to be despised, District postal arrangement.--The dák coss in this district amounts to Rs. 2,981 and the Government grant-in-aid to Rs. 576, making a grand