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112 masses, employers, in country places, are just as desirous to keep them in slavish ignorance. The sowcars, too, hinder education all they can. Said to me a sowcar : "If a Hindu speaks English, I have no use for him."

And then it is just possible that the language of the ruling community is made too prominent in government schools, and that Telegu, Marathi, and Canarese do not receive sufficient attention, for we find that the percentage of Mahomedan boys who go to government schools is much higher than that of Hindus. The following figures were given to me by the Education Department for 1322 Fasli (1913 a.d.) ; and it must be remembered that there are in the State 11,620,146 Hindus and only 1,380,990 Mahomedans.

Total number of pupils attending government schools of all grades, and percentage :

Mahomedans. . 28,715 percentage 41.2

Hindus. . 37,143     „     53.3

Christians. . 2,706 " 4.0

Parsis. . 119  "   0.1

Others. . 991 "    1.4

The Census says : "There were in 1901 in the elementary schools 80,743 scholars,