All Universi- Universities

No. of students. ties in Br. in Indian
Total

India.
States
(India)

Intermediate class . . 85,072
8571
93,643

Undergraduate (Arts) 32,972
1359
34,331

Undergraduate (Science) 10,770
1350
12,120

Post Graduate (Arts) 6,085
90
6,175

Post Graduate (Science) 1,347
57
1,404

Research Students (Arts) 336
22
358

Research Students (Science) 164
20
184

For professional degrees.

Medicine
6531
340
6871

Law
7555
311
7866

Engineering
2278
441
2719

Education
2779
158
2936

Agriculture
1194
* ...
1194

Commerce
0326
164
6490

Total Males
148410
11575
159,985

Females
14998
1308
16,306

163.408

12883

176.291

A Chinese Proverb says:—
"If you are planning for one year, plant grainy
If you are planning for ten years, plant trees;
If you are planning for a hundred years, plant
men."
Yes, that is what is needed. If men are to be
'planted' firmly, in India, their education, their health,
their nourishment, their work should all be of the
highest type. Adequate provision for education fa-
cilities is the first charge on the country's resources.
The British naturally are not much concerned with
this side of our development.
EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
U.S.S.R. is a very big country. It was a back-
ward country like India twenty years ago. But its
recent educational achievements might well furnish
a standard comparison. Of those living within the
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