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CHAP. VI.]
JUSTIFIABLE PRIDE.
329
attainment. Since the establishment of his school
many Parsi families, who have been unwilling to send
their girls out, have commenced to teach them Eng-
lish in their own houses through English governesses.
Parsi girls have of late made considerable progress
in English music. The performances of some of them
on the piano as well as their singing have been ad-
mired by European critics. We are happy to say
that Parsi girls now consider that music is an accom-
plishment without which a lady's education cannot
be said to be complete.
Having thus shown the origin, progress, and pre-
sent state of education among the Parsis, both male
and female, the author, as a Parsi, feels proud in
being able to record that education among them has
made rapid strides within a period of half a century
—for it can only be said to have begun at the com-
mencement of the present century—and that the
results attained are in the highest degree satisfactory.
In this matter, as well as in much else, they have
shown themselves to be far in advance of the other
races of the peninsula.
In the report of the census of 1881 will be found
extensive tables giving interesting information re-
garding education. Its author, Dr. Wen, in an
analysis of the comparative state of education in
1872 and 1881, and where referring to the state
and advance of education amongst the Parsi race,
JUSTIFIABLE PRIDE.
329
attainment. Since the establishment of his school
many Parsi families, who have been unwilling to send
their girls out, have commenced to teach them Eng-
lish in their own houses through English governesses.
Parsi girls have of late made considerable progress
in English music. The performances of some of them
on the piano as well as their singing have been ad-
mired by European critics. We are happy to say
that Parsi girls now consider that music is an accom-
plishment without which a lady's education cannot
be said to be complete.
Having thus shown the origin, progress, and pre-
sent state of education among the Parsis, both male
and female, the author, as a Parsi, feels proud in
being able to record that education among them has
made rapid strides within a period of half a century
—for it can only be said to have begun at the com-
mencement of the present century—and that the
results attained are in the highest degree satisfactory.
In this matter, as well as in much else, they have
shown themselves to be far in advance of the other
races of the peninsula.
In the report of the census of 1881 will be found
extensive tables giving interesting information re-
garding education. Its author, Dr. Wen, in an
analysis of the comparative state of education in
1872 and 1881, and where referring to the state
and advance of education amongst the Parsi race,