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Rh will lead when married. And here the Indian and English ladies of Hyderabad meet once a month for recreation and improvement.

The non-purdah Methodist High School for the daughters of the lower middle classes is quite up-to-date, and has a large attendance.

In 1321 Fasli (1911 a.d.), the average number of girls under instruction in all the schools in the State was 6.017 — 2,097 Mahomedans, 1,962 Hindus, 1,068 Christians, and 45 Parsis.

I venture to disagree with a member of His Highness's government in his opinion that the illiteracy of the masses in Hyderabad State is largely due to the fact that the girls of the lower classes are kept totally ignorant. It seems to me that the whole environment of the people in the districts is at fault, and that a desire for more education will come when roads open up the districts, the jagirdars are brought to a sense of their great responsibilities as landlords, and some Hindu religious text-book is introduced into the primary schools. It is not, it seems to me, the educational system that needs to be improved, but what the Hindu pupils want in the primary schools is less red tape and more encouragement.