FIGURES ABOUT EDUCATION AND LITERACY:
(Figures taken from the Year Book of 1914)
| Area, 1,773,168 square miles. |
| Population, 315,132,537. |
| Universities in British India, 6. |
| Number of High Schools for males | 1273 |
| Number of High Schools for females | 144 |
| Primary schools for males i.e., not even 1 for every 10 miles. | |
| Primary schools for females | 13,694 |
Literally.
Males, 106 per 1000, i.e., about 10½ per cent.
Females, only 10 per 1000, i.e., about 1 per cent.
All these figures are taken from the Indian Year Book, published by the Times of India Press, Bombay, for the years 1914 and 1915.
IV
THE FLOGGING OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
(An extract from New India, a paper edited by Mrs. Annie Besant.)
The tragedy of Mr. Ramcharan Lal, the ex-editor of the Swaraj, continues. Mr. Macleod, the city magistrate of Nagpur, has sentenced him to an additional six months of rigorous imprisonment after his sentence has expired for ‘refusing to work.’ Our readers will remember the case. This unfortunate political prisoner—whose analogues in foreign countries have been welcomed and protected on British soil—under-going a sentence of imprisonment, was so brutally flogged for refusing to do work, which he says was more than he could do, that the prison doctor admits that he would have been unable to work for four days after the flogging, and six weeks after it the skin was still discoloured and two serious scars remained. Now he has a heavy sentence of six months’ additional imprisonment. Is this British treatment of a political prisoner? Why did Britons protest against the use of the knout on political prisoners in Russia? Is there no one in the House of Commons who will ask a question on this case, and demand an enquiry into the treatment of political prisoners in India?