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110 spending two years in studying the problem of education in Hyderabad State, this gentle- man published a long report that does not seem to have given much satisfaction. Now a learned and academic Mahomedan gentle- man is in charge of the Education Department, and of him it was said to me by a gentleman from Bombay, to whom he had offered a post in the Hyderabad educational service, "His ideas are alarmingly magnificent."

I do not suppose that my opinion can be of much value, but I will say that while travelling in the districts, it seemed to me that in a country like Hyderabad, where roads are so badly needed and where, in consequence, the people do not mix freely or have much intellectual stimulus, education must be made popular among the Hindus before it can become general. I do not think that the figures given in administration reports include missionary schools, in fact, a missionary who is in charge of large schools for boys and girls told me, "We avoid the Education Department as much as possible," but missionaries have assured me that the Hindu children whom they teach seldom show much intelligence. There is, in fact