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The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c10.s3.85

The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c10.s3.85

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c10.s3.85

Previous to 1917, what were the figures of literacy? Four or five per cent of the population? I believe they were higher a century ago. But the only way of proving this would be by finding out what sales in the very much smaller population of that day (though the first census was 1871, was it not?) were achieved for the popular classics.