methods and fashioned his tools for the more extensive survey
which was his primary aim. The results of this Nattore survey of
485 villages were tabulated, village by village, by Adam. Further
details were provided for some of them in another tabulation.
The population of this Thana was 1,20,928; the number of
families 30,028 (in the proportion of one Hindoo to two
Muslims); the number of elementary schools 27, and of schools
of learning 38 (all these latter being Hindoo). In 1,588 families
(80% of these being Hindoo), children occasionally received
instruction at home. The number of scholars in elementary
schools was 262, and education in them was between the ages of
8-14; while the scholars in schools of learning were 397, 136 of
these being local persons and 261 from distant places, the latter
also receiving both food and lodging. The average period of study
in these latter institutions was 16 years, from about the age of
11 to the age of 27. However, while the number in elementary
schools was so low, these 485 villages nonetheless had 123
native general medical practitioners, 205 village doctors, 21
mostly Brahmin smallpox inoculators practising according to the
old Indian method,^60 297 women-midwives, and 722 snake
conjurors.
The Third Report: Survey of Five Districts
The third report of Adam has the most data. In this report, Adam
gives the findings of his surveys in part of the district of
Murshedabad (20 thanas with a population of 1,24,804 out of 37
thanas with a total district population of 9,69,447), and the
whole of the districts of Beerbhoom and Burdwan in Bengal, and
of South Behar and Tirhoot in Bihar. In one thana of each
district, Adam carried out the enquiries personally and also
gathered additional information. In the rest, it was done for him
according to his instructions and proformas by his trained
Indian assistants. Earlier, Adam’s intention was to visit every
village in person; but he found that ‘the sudden appearance of a
European in a village often inspired terror, which it was always
difficult, and sometimes impossible, to subdue.’(p.214) He,
therefore, gave up this idea of a personal visit to every village; in
part to save time.
Language-wise Division
The total number of schools of all types in the selected districts
numbered 2,566. These schools were divided into Bengali
(1,098),