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Rh on the most comprehensive plan to the remaining nineteen thanas of the table embracing the whole of the city jurisdiction. Of these nineteen, the first ten, viz., eight on the eastern and two on the western side of the Bhagirathi, are said to constitute the old city of Moorshedabad, or the city properly so called; and, in point of fact, several of the thanas included in the city jurisdiction are in every just sense Mofussil thanas, containing only small and scattered villages and interspersed with cultivated fields, jungle, and morass. The table shows the distribution of schools to be very unequal. Of the twenty thanas there are four without any institution of education whatsoever; four others in each of which there is only one vernacular school; and two others in which there are a Persian and an Arabic school, or a Sanscrit and a Persian one, but no vernacular school at all. In twenty thanas the total number of schools of every description is 113, averaging 5·6 to each thana.

The Beerbhoom district was the first to which the comprehensive plan of investigation was applied, and the total number of schools of every description in the district is 544, averaging 32 to each thana. There are three thanas in which vernacular schools only are found without any institutions of Hindu or Mahomedan learning; and in those three thanas the number even of vernacular schools is considerably less than in the