1895
The general' advance of the Muhammadans in India is tlrefore dependent upon the progress of high English education among them and in the Chapters of this work specially devoted to the subject the question of the spread of Elhglish education among them has been extricated from the confusion which arises from taking the statistics of all classes of education en masse and deducing general con [...] To expose the great fallacy of such views is the main object of the latter part of Chapter XXX (pages 196 to 198) and of the whole of Chapter XXXI which shows the present ate of the progress of English education among Muhammadans in Colleges and Secondary Schools and their future prospects in this respect (vide pp. [...] In estimating the proportionate progress of the Muhammadans in English education the usual„method adopted in Official Reports is to compare the percentage of Muhammadans in the total general population with the percentage of Muhammadan students reading in English Colleges and Schools and the backwardnessof the Muhammadans is estimated according to the deficiency in.their percentage among the tot [...] It is obvious therefore that if a forecast of the prospects of the Muhammadans in the matter of English education especially of the higher type were to be prepared by calculating the approximate dumber of years required to raise the percentage of Muhammadg`m students in English Colleges and schools to the level of the percentage of the Muhammadans in the Urban population the reSults of lie [...] Universal suffrage in a country governed by a common faith is the expression of the national will; but in a country deprived of a common belief what can it be but the mere expression of the interests of those numerically the stronger to the oppression of all the resit ?" The comparative spread of higher English education among the two most important sections of the population of India is therefo