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NORTII-II'ESTERN PROVINCES AND OUDII. 401 These are the English colleges at Agra, Allahábád, and Benares, and the newly-established college class in the Faizabad High School; the aided English colleges at Lucknow and Aligarh; the unaided college department of St. John's, Agra, and the London Mission College at Benares; the oriental departments of the Government college at Benares, and of the aided colleges at Lucknow and Aligarh ; and the law classes at Allahabad and Lucknow. La Martinière at Lucknow and the Thomason Engineering College are not connected with the Education Department. Nine hundred and seventy-three students were on the rolls on the 31st of March 1883, of whom 223 were in the English Government colleges, 16% in aided and 28 in unaided English colleges; 399 were in the Government Sanskrit College at Benares, 124 in aided oriental colleges, and 35 in the aided law colleges. The average number on the rolls during the year was 882, and the average daily attendance 764. The classification of the students according to race and creed was as follows :–Europeans and Eurasians, 6; Native Christians, 9; Hindus, S35; and Muhammadans, 122. Of these students, 428 were learning English, and 837 a classical oriental language. The total cost of all the colleges was £21,497, of which £12,777 came from provincial revenues, £407 from local rates, £5347 from endowments, £1194 from fees, and £1768 from other sources. General State Education. The system of State education is under an Education Department, at the head of which is the Director of Public Instruction. Under him are the Divisional Inspectors of Schools in the North-Western Provinces, and in Oudh an Inspector and an Assistant Inspector. The inspectors visit and examine all high and middle schools, and as many of the primary schools as they can visit in their tours. They superintend all the cilú schools in their divisions, and the normal schools are under their immediate management. Middle and primary vernacular schools in the North-Western Provinces have for some years been supervised and controlled by District school committees, the duties and powers of inspectors bei confined—as regards these schools to inspection, examination, sug gestion, and report. These committees have been recently merged in the newly-constituted District boards, which, with increased powers and responsibilities, are entrusted with the general supervision and management of all primary and middle vernacular schools, with the financial control of zılá schools, the superintendence of boardinghouses, and the care of local scholarships and endowments. This system has, since the 1st of April 1882, been introduced into Oudh also. The Deputy Inspectors are the subordinates and ministers of the District boards. The Government colleges at Allahábád and Benares remain under the superintendence and control of the Director of Public Instruction. VOL. X. 2 C