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 LUC 361 State of education of the lower classes. The mass of the lower classes is ignorant, superstitious, and unambitious. The low caste man rarely travels beyond the limits of his pargana, and the pilgrim who has just returned from his wanderings to the Ganges will supply him with all his knowledge of the world. But class holds no communication with class, so that the diffusion of knowledge even by these means is limited. Government schools.But every hope may be placed on the schools that are being now spread through the country. The following schools have been established in the Lucknow district excluding the city :-An Anglo-vernacular middle class school at Kákori ;—this is intermediate in rank between the primary or village schools and the high schools in which students are prepared for the matriculation examination. Five vernacular middle elass schools at Malihabad, Mahona, Amethi (Díngur), Mohanlal- ganj, and Aliganj respectively. In these the curriculum of the lower five classes is that of the village schools, but is more extended in the upper two classes. 67 primary village schools and 4 primary town schools in which the education given is of an elementary character. The curriculum in these last includes reading and writing in Urdu and Hindi, arithmetic, and in the higher classcs mensuration, geography, and history. The following return exhibits the working of the district dák during 1876-77 .. 1.4 140 8 14 Number of miles of dak line 35 of runners Cost for the year 4. Re. 2,000 9 ] Number of covers delivered of covers returned undelivered Total nunber of lettera gent to district post-office + 1.4 end . 1,779 20,969 Statement showing the number of articles given for delivery and those returned undelivered during the year 1876-77. Letters. Papers. Packets. Parcele, 19,842 575 69 483 Giren out for delivery... Returned undelivered .. 1,752 14 3 10
 * 19,199
 * One runner has worked for a part of the year,