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Aiய Alயா பt liய 11rrival. 1: "tir ru,,, - izingur til ihr preple ol Bengal, the ronchiinn சாயி பாபா.பா. Calcutta are quite disserent. At least, that is my 1rl+: , Hillif l. living in this town for the last seven years at a stretch and quo, this long period 1 had occasion to come in contact with good ான், respectable Mohamedan ladies and I do not remember to hawe Һғаға Bengali spoken by any of them; even in case where I sound broken and miserable Urdu spoken. I started talking with them in Benso but they preferred to give their replies in Urdu. Many of these ladies although natives of Bengal. say that they must Lälk Urdu! When this school was started in Waliullah Lārle in the ാജേiവു of 1911 with only 15 or 15 girls. I used to teach English as an additional subject with a view to popularize the institution with the local people, and I made it a practice to explain the meaning of English words in Bengali. Shortly afterwards requests poured on me frurn the gurdiari wis puplis to use Urdu as the medium for explaining English, In the wake of the Sakhawat Memorial School, two or three other girls' school have been established, and in these schools also education is imparted through the medium of Urdu because the guradians preser Urdu, For some years past Government is employing a number II think there are 6 such teachers on Rs. 30/-per monthl of peripatete female. Urdu mistress to teach reading, writing and needlework to the grown up girls and married women of purdanashin Mohamedan families residing in Calcutta. These tutoresses go to the houses of their pupils in "burqa. They also teach Urdu and not Bengali and yet so far I am not aware of any complaint having been made that na provision has been made by Government teaching Bengali-speaking girls in a similar manner. How very difficult it is to secure such Urdu knowing semale teachers (and how very in competent they are, when found) may be ascertained 1f eriquires bë rnă de at the affire af ihr Inspectress of Schools, in whose hands the appointment of these teachers lies. And yet teachers competent to teach Bengali–well educated teachers in every way though not belonging to the Islamic |alth—are to be found everywhere in Calcutta. why then does *mment teach Urdu instad of Bengali is there is really a demand sor the latter? It is because the purdanashin Mohamedan girls in Calcutta are Tint Willing to learn Bengali סיvםn withםuו paymtml offer. Mr. R. Rahman has *Pressed his mortification at the want of a Bengali School for Bengall-speaking Mohamedan girls in this wide tily of Caleutla. Bul "hy is there such a want and who is responsible Пвьѣ о