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Thus 80 teachers receive in all rupees 123-4-3, which averages to each teacher rupees 1-8-7 per month.

Among the 80 teachers there are only two that have school-houses, and those are miserable huts,—one built at a cost of five, and the other at a cost of three, rupees. The others accommodate their scholars in verandahs, shops, out-houses, baithak-khanas, &c.

In 80 schools the total number of scholars is 507, giving to each school an average of 6·3. The average age of the scholars at the time that the schools were visited was 9·2 years; their average age at the time when they entered school was 5·03 years, and their average age at the time when they would probably leave school was 13·1 year. The average period passed at school would thus appear to be about eight years.

Of the scholars, five are Musalmans and 502 are Hindus, all of whom were present when the schools were visited. The following are the castes of the Hindu scholars and the number of each:—

Of all the districts I have visited vernacular instruction is here at the lowest ebb, denoted both by the small number of schools and