The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.s3.t2.7
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.s3.t2.7
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c4.s3.t2.7
It is only in the Telugu-speaking districts that the twice-born formed the major proportion of the school going students. Here, the proportion of Brahmin boys varied from 24% in Cuddapah to 46% in Vizagapatam; of the Vysees from 10.5% in Vizagapatam to 29% in Cuddapah; of the Muslims from 1% in Vizagapatam to 8% in Nellore; and of the Soodras and other castes from 35% in Guntoor to over 41% in Cuddapah and Vizagapatam.