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reduced, but I think the first result of reduction will be an increased number of boarders. So
the ’’•rant may shortly afterwards be withdrawn, or at any rate diminished.
7. I append a list prepared according to the instructions contained in the circular.
Comparative Table of Muhammadan and non-Muhammadan employes in the Cachar district.

Designation of offices.
Number of
Christian
employes.
Number of
Hindu
employes.
Number of
Muhammadan
•■mploy6s.
Total.
Cacher Deputy Commissioner’s Office-
Judicial and Revenue Departments . . . . £
Settlement Office . • • • • • . f
Survey Office . • • • • . . £
Registration . • • • • . .
Forest • • • • • • • • £
Sub-divisional Offices-
Hailakandi . • . . . . •
Gunjong .... . . .f
Sadr M unsif . . . • . ■ •
Telegraph . . . • • ■ • •
Post Office . . • . . . . . £
Police
Education . . . . • • • • £
Medical . . • • • • • •
Coolie depot . • - • • • • •
Jail ... . . . . .^
.i . io • . - . to. • 5 . J cij to . . :
61
55
172
263
6
67
3
’7
18
11
17
1
17
5
20
"2
22
98
108
10
120
6
5
10
2
7
2
3
"s
8
11
4
50
"1
1
8
"1
"1
4
57
58
9
6
1
5
• ••
"5
61
63
180
274
12
120
3
1
8
26
11
18
1
581
20
2
6
22
155
166
21
126
7
10
10
2
7
2
8

. 100,382
1,672
. 48,711
497

These figures do not convey a correct impression. Among the Hindus of the district are
included 87,000 uneducated Hindu coolies. Thus, putting the males at 47,000 (under the
mark), we obtain a total of about 53,300 Hindu males, against 48,700 Muhammadan males.

Roman figure entries mean superior class. Italic figure entries mean menial servants.
Gazetted Officers are not included in this list.
Hindus (males) .
Under instruction
Muhammadan (males) •
Under instruction

From W. E. Ward, Esq., Commissioner of the Assam Valley Districts, to the Secretary to the Chief Commis-
sioner of Assam,—No. 1328G., dated Gauhati, the 26th June 1882.
With reference to your letter No. 1220, dated the 30th March last, I have the honour to
submit in original the reply of the Deputy Commissioners of Goalpara and Kamrup to your
Circular No. 11, dated the 1st April, on the subject of the proportion of Muhammadan to
Hindu employes and the means of promoting the spread of education among Muhammadans.
Although the circular referred to was addressed only to the Deputy Commissioner of Goalpara,
I sent a copy also to the Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup, as in this district also there is a
comparatively large Muhammadan population. The proportion of Muhammadans to total
population in each of the districts of Goalpara and Kamrup was, according to the last census,
23'48 and 7'82 per cent, respectively.
2. Upon the allegations made and the claims preferred in the memorial of the “ National
Muhammadan Association” I have very few remarks to make, as, so far as this valley is
concerned, they can, 1 think, easily be disposed of.
3. It may be perfectly true that a good deal of the impoverishment of the Muhammadan
population is due to their exclusion from Government service in favour of Hindus. But
for this the Muhammadans of these districts have only to thank themselves, as they simply
will not qualify themselves for Government service. The memorialists in paragraph 8 of
their memorial deny that Indian Mussulmans are apathetic or neglect to avail themselves of
the educational advantages offered to them by Government; but I think there can be very
little doubt that in Assam, as elsewhere in India, our education is not popular among the