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Rh The following are the average ages of the scholars at the three periods formerly mentioned :—

The following works, in addition to some mentioned under the preceding heads, are read in the schools of this district :—

In Persian, Tis Takhti, a spelling-book; Farsi-nameh or Sirab Dhoka, a vocabulary; Insha-i-Herkern, forms of correspondence; Nal Daman, translation from Sanscrit of a love-story; the poems of Urfi, of ', of Wahshati, of Ghani, of Badr, and of Khakani, the last including both the Tahfut-ul-Irakin and Kasaid-i-Khakani; Waqaia Nyamat Khan Ali, an account of the campaigns of ; Hadikat-ul-Balaghat, a grammar of rhetoric; ', national poem; and Kuliyat-i-Khosro, the works of.

In Arabic, Saraf Mir and Hidayat-us-Sarf on the etymology of the Arabic; Miat Amil, Jummul, Tatamma, Hidayat-un-Nahv, Misba, Zawa, Kafia, and Sharh-i-Mulla on syntax, Zawa being a commentary on Misba, and Shar-i-Mulla on Kafia; Mizan-i-Mantih, Tahzib, Mir Zahid, Kutbi, Mir, and Mulla Jalal on logic, Kutbi and Mulla Jalal being commentaries on Mir Zahid, and Mir a glossary to Kutbi; Sharh-i-Waqaia, on the circumstantials of Islam, as the ceremonies of religion and the law of inheritance; Nurulanwar, on the fundamentals of Islam, as the unity of God and the mission of Mahomed; Sirajiya, compendium of Mahomedan law; Hidaya, on the law of inheritance; Miscat-ul-Misabih, on Mahomedan observances; Shams-i-Bazigha and Sadra, treatises on natural philosophy; Sharh-i-Chagimani, a treatise on astronomy according to the Ptolemaic system; and Tauji, Talbi, and Faragh, treatises on metaphysics.

This district contains 291 schools, of which 279 are Persian and 12 Arabic.

One town contains ninteen, another eleven, a third seven, a fourth six, and a fifth five schools. Five villages contain three each; twenty-four, two each; and a hundred and eighty, one each.

The number of teachers is the same as the number of schools, and their average age is 34.2 years.

One of the Persian teachers is a Hindu of the writer-caste, and all the other teachers, both Persian and Arabic, are Musalmans.