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In this list the Sunri, Kalu, Dhoba, Bagdhi, and Chandal, castes are those which the long established usages of the country would have either discouraged or altogether excluded from a knowledge of letters. Two of the teachers are lepers.

In this district I ascertained that there were four teachers who taught gratuitously, of whom one was a Musalman and three Hindus, and of the latter one was a Chandal.

The paid teachers are thus sub-divided according to the nature and amount of the remuneration which they receive:—

Thus 635 teachers receive in all rupees 2,076-5-9, which averages to each teacher per month rupees 3-4-3. Many of the teachers, who do not acquire sufficient for their livelihood by teaching, eke out their income by engaging in farming, in money-lending, in retail-trade, in weaving, in worldly service, in temple-service, &c.; and all of them have occasional presents from the scholars during the progress of their educaition, and even after they have left school, which cannot be ascertained or estimated. The teachers of the Missionary schools and of the school supported by the Rajah of Burdwan are paid, but not by the parents of the scholars. In the Missionary schools the pupils, besides receiving gratuitous instruction, are also furnished with paper, pens, ink, leaves, and books. In the school of the Rajah of Burdwan similar materials are supplied, together with a daily payment of the one-sixteenth part of an anna (five gundas of cowries, i. e., 20 cowries or 1 buri) to each scholar for refreshments. Three of the Hindu scholars are wholly fed at the expense of the Rajah for a period