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was disposed of on the first principle, while 35,493 acres were sold by auction in twenty-two parcels for Rs. 4,99,422, giving an average price grants,

of Rs. 14-1-6 per acre.

Education

infancy owing to the late introduction of the revised land revenue, with its accompanying school cess. its rerpj^-g -^^ ^o^ever, now paid nearly all over the district, ^ and village schools are springing up in every direction. In many places the house is not yet built, and the master with his class is to be found sitting in the open air under the shelter of a tree. The whole number of pupils in the past year was 3,056, or barely a quarter per cent, 1,920 of these attended the fifty-four lately-established of the population village schools, while the remainder were distributed among the town schools of Gonda, Utraula, Paraspur, Colonelganj, Nawabganj, and BalramUrdu and Hindi, with the addition of pur, with their several branches. English in the town schools, and mathematics and geography, were the principal subjects of education. Persian was very little taught, and unaided private schools, kept up by the liberality of well-to-do natives, were the sole sources of instruction in Arabic. They are thirty-two in number, and are attended by 199 pupils. The master is paid a small monthly stipend by his patron, who also provides him with a fixed allowance of food, or allows him to join in the family meal; in addition to this, but very rarely, his pupils may contribute a small fee. is

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Brahmans who have a knowledge of Sanskrit will communicate the language gratuitously to small classes, rarely exceeding five or six boys, of their own caste. Chhattris are occasionally admitted as learners, but Sudras never. Small fees are sometimes paid where learning is attended by indigence, but as a rule it is not thought creditable to require more than the respectful services of a pupil.