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THE Bureau of Education, India, has issued an interesting quinquennial review of the progress of education in British India for the period 1912–17. The facts are set forth in a statistical abstract covering 100 folio pages. They deal with all forms of education, primary, secondary, professional, and university, under various heads, such as the number of institutions public and private the scholars in attendance, local and State expenditure, number and qualifications of the teachers, and cost of education in elementary and secondary schools and in professional and university colleges. The statistics differentiate between the various races, together with Europeans and Anglo-Indians, and between the different creeds; including Hinduism, Mohammedanism, and Buddhism. The returns refer only to British India, with an area of 1,034,716 square miles and a population of about 244,000,000, of which number 124,747,805 are males and 119,273,295 females. The Hindus number 163,611,094, Mohammedans 57,419,309, Buddhists 10,642,812, Parsis 86,155, Europeans and Anglo-Indians 265,254, Indian Christians 2,226,464, others 9,989,185—figures of much interest in view of the present Indian unrest. Of this vast number only 7,851,946, in which is included 1,230,419 females, are under instruction in all types of educational institutions, or about 3 per cent of the population. In 1906–7 only 5,388,632 were under instruction, and in 1911–12 6,780,721.
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Education in British India . Nature 104, 101–102 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104101b0
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