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 130 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — INDIA AND DEPENDENCIES

There are in addition, various institutions of a special character, such as technical schools teaching arts and industries, engineering, &c. ; law- schools ; medical schools and colleges ; and training colleges and normal schools for the training of teachers.

The following table gives the number of institutions and scholars in 1918-19 in British India, including Ajmer-Merwara, British Baluchistan, and Civil and Military Station of Bangalore : —

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Institutions for

Scholars

Males

Females

Males Females

General Education : Secondary

Spscial schools. .

193

7,427

129,803

3,404

16

722

20,468

297

62,727 1,103

1,103,234 108,899

4,821,611 1,119,871

110,557 10,661

Private institutions

33,169

525,020 1 72,894

Total.

173,996 23,351

6,628,146 1,318,428

Grand Total

197,347

7,936,577

The " special" schools include (1918-19) 703 training schools for masters, with 17,600 scholars ; 114 for mistresses, with 3,100 scholars ; 8 schools of art, with 1,400 scholars ; 2 law schools, with 62 scholars ; 27 medical schools with 4,600 scholars ; 17 engineering and surveying schools, with 1,000 scholars; 272 technical and industrial schools, with 13,500 scholars ; 79 commercial schools, with 4,400 scholars ; 4 agricultural schools with 64 scholars ; 6 reformatory schools with 1,150 scholars ; and 2,469 other schools with 74,400 scholars.

The following table shows the number of institutions and scholars, and expenditure on public education, in the several provinces in 1918-19: —

Province

Public Institutions

Institutions Scholars

Madras. .

Bombay

Bengal

United Provinces

Punjab

Burma

Bihar and Orissa

Central Provinces aud

Berar Assam North-west Frontier

Province. Coorg. Delhi.

Ajmer-Mtrwara. llritieh lialuchistan Bangalore.

Total.

32,879 12,679 49,223 14,002 6,767 9.23S 26,752

4,751 4,680

726 100 170 174 73 110

lliL', 880

1,583,087 797,406

1,862,320 848,049 431,628 377,191 789,096

347,747

215,448

42,637 8,023

V-',304 8,857 8,620

11,178

7,338,663

Private Institutions

Institutions

4,003 1,514 2,478 8,967 2.198 17,862 1,961

68 270

330

9

71

99

175

6

85,017

Scholars

109,864

«9,209 76,680 45,572 195,717 3?,044

1,990 9,267

5,723 166 2,994 3,534 2,499 102

597,914

Expenditure

on Education.

£

1.053,453

1,801,211

1,850,509

1,149,H8

826,818

514,036

51'3,430

391,859

17S.877

MjM

7,748 17,191

88,785

11.044 33,987

S,657,588

The following was the educational expenditure for " public " institutions