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Rh his own. This work has heen printed, and contains 720 pages. He is now engaged in the preparation of astronomical tables to be entitled Zij Bahadur Khani. The names of both works are intended as a compliment to his patron Bahadur Khan, one of the sons of Mitrajit Singh, the Rajah of Tikari.

Maulavi Mohiyuddin, dwelling at Erki in the thana of Jehanabad, has composed in Persian Sharh-i-Abdul Rasul, a commentary on the work of Abdul Rasul on Arabic syntax, consisting of 288 pages in manuscript; and Jawab Chabbis Musäir, a treatise on Mahomedan observances, containing 12 pages, also in manuscript. In Arabic he has written Majmua Taqrir Mantiq Amani, explanatory of Majmua, a work on logic, and consisting of 32 pages in manuscript.

Rajah Mitrajit Singh also put into my hands a pamphlet on the agriculture of the district, written in Persian and printed, of which he stated himself to be the author. On examination I have found it to be the same in substance as the Short Essay on Husbandry translated by Mr. Lewis Dacosta and appended to his translation of the Dewan Pusund.

There are only two Persian and two Arabic schools that have appropriate buildings or school-houses, the pupils of the remaining schools finding or making accommodations for themselves, chiefly in the thresholds or verandas of the private dwelling-houses occupied by the patrons or teachers.

In 291 schools there are 1,486 scholars, averaging 5.1 to each school. There are 1,424 Persian scholars and 62 Arabic students. Of the Arabic students two are Hindus of the writer-caste and sixty are Musalmans, and of the Persian scholars 865 are Hindus and 559 are Musalmans. The following are the sub-divisions of the Hindus who are Persian scholars :—

Of the total number of Hindu scholars eight were absent and of the Musalman scholars three were absent at the time the schools were visited, the remaining number of each class being present.