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111 little to rouse the intelligence of Hindu children in places far from a railway station and reached only by a fair-weather road or a cart-track, and it seems to me that if the Hindu religion were not so much neglected in government schools, there might be a desire on the part of parents to let their children learn the things that the Education Department is so anxious to teach them, for with Hindus religion is not only a duty but, also, a stimulus.

As it is now, parents in the districts want to make money by their children as soon as the boys and girls can earn a few annas, and they prefer to send their sons to the so-called "bazaar schools," where pupils come and go as their parents please, no regular hours are insisted upon and, above all, there are no examinations. Government schools are too strict as regards clothes and cleanliness to suit illiterate parents, and they prefer to pay a few dubs to a Hindu school-master, who in some small, ill-ventilated room will teach the boys to repeat by heart some well-known Hindu legends, and to do a little bazaar arithmetic.

There is no gainsaying that while the government is most anxious to educate the