— BAH
140
It is intended that ultimately there should age so 00
.
be 75 village
schools,
but at
present there are only 39 established. There are only 1^406 boys in the village schools the entire number under 2,000, not more than 2 per cent, of the boy
attending school
is
population. it is difficult to get any returns, but in Bahraich town there are 12 schools kept by pandits, molvis n igenous so oo s. ^^^ others, at which 213 boys are educated and the American Mission has a school of 42 boys about half of these learn Persian and read the Koran, the other half reading Nagri and Kaithi.
Of indigenous
schools
The Education Department has had to make the most of a very small the cess in this district hitherto, and the ™ met income from pi -it iii. o expenses 01 building school-nouses, ojc, nave been
Ti,„ uv» The A-ffi„ difficulties
4-
i.
t.
by the Education Department.
heavy at
starting.
Now that
the revised assessment
has come into force, we may hope to see the full complement of village schools instituted. Some of the taluqdars of ihe district take a real interest in the spread of education.
A point in which our village
schools seem to fail is in the class of boys This is mainly composthat at present attend them. '"^ ^^ °^ children- of the Banian and Kayath castes. outviSre schools Before our educational system can claim to be called national, it must be able to draw into the village school-house not only the children of classes with whom already a modicum of elementary knowledge the is a tradition, but also the sons of the purely agricultural classes, Kurmi, the Lodh, the Ahir, and the Chamar. In proportion as the attendance register shews a higher percentage of these and other non-professional and non-commercial castes, in the same degree may we hope that we are reaUy getting hold of the rural population. By a settlement officer no result can be more devoutly desired than ^hat the ryot should be able to make his own estimate of his fair share of the grain on the threshing floor, to confute the patwari by his own papers, and to calculate with some degree of accuracy the loss that he incurs by getting into the Banian's books.
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The
total population of the district as assessed is 835,826, giving
an
average density of 347 souls per square mile of total opu a ion. ^^g^ (excluding reserved forest tracts), and of 639 The relative density per square mile souls per square mile of cultivation. of total area in the eight parganas is shewn as follows: .
1.
2.
Hisampur
458 souls per square mile o£ total area.
