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Indian Medical Service: Little over 5 per cent. are Indians.
In Provincial Legislative Councils having very restricted powers of legislation, the elected Indians are in a minority everywhere.
FIGURES ABOUT EDUCATION AND LITERACY:
| Area, 1,773,168 square miles. | |
| Population, 315,132,537. | |
| Universities in British India, 6. | |
| Number of High Schools for males | 1273 |
| Number of High Schools for females | 144 |
| Primary schools for males | 113,955 |
| i.e., not even 1 for every 10 miles. | |
| Primary schools for females. | 13,694 |
| Literally. | |
| Males, 106 per 1000, i.e., about 10½ per cent. | |
| Females, only 10 per 1000, i.e., about 1 per cent. | |
| All these figures are taken from the Indian Year Book, published by the Times of India Press, Bombay, for the years 1914 and 1915. | |
IV
THE FLOGGING OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
(An extract from New India, a paper edited by Mrs. Annie Besant.)
The tragedy of Mr. Ramcharan Lal, the ex-editor of the Swaraj, continues. Mr. Macleod, the city magistrate of Nagpur, has sentenced him to an additional six months of rigorous imprisonment after his sentence has expired for 'refusing to work.' Our readers will remember the
