The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s27.15

c5.s27.15

9. That these deficiencies are lamentably great is shown in every one of the reports now submitted, and the general result of the whole from which it appears that out of a population estimated by the Census at above 12 million and a half only about 1,88,000 are receiving instruction or about 13¾ percent is most unsatisfactory.