The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.s4.t4.7
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c4.s4.t4.7
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The total number of schools of all types in the selected districts numbered 2,566. These schools were divided into Bengali (1,098), Hindi (375), Sanskrit (353), Persian (694), Arabic (31), English (8), Girls (6), and infants (1). The number of schools in the district of Midnapore was also given: 548 Bengali schools, 182 Oriya schools, 48 Persian schools, and one English school. *Table 11* gives the position, district-wise: