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porioanontly in Maharak.
9. Education, A largo inorease in expenditure,
exceeding the budgeted umount, is shown under this heading.
In this respeot I would refer to your letter Wo. C/211
of 1920 dated 19th October quoting the remark of the
I Hon’ble the Political Resident that the estimate for

Education i3 very small considering the incorao of tho
State and that education is the dominant factor in
Bahrain.
: The expenditure in 1346 was Rs 32,119/-
-do- 1347 Rs 57,883/-
A rapid striae has beon made in this direction
and the State’s expenditure has increase^ correspondingly.
About 658 boys and 104 girls are now receiving
secondary education.
Beyrout Students. Eight students, three of them

from the ruling family and five sons of leading merchants
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are being educated at State expense in the American
University at Beyrout. The cost of the State, inoluding
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travelling expenses, is about Rs 13,000/- per annum.
Tho reports from Boyrout are very satisfactory.
One boy, whose father v/as a local merchant, is
being educated privately at a boys' school in Brighton.

Girls School. Three years ago the very idea of
a girls school v/as considered, especially by the people
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if of Muharrak^to be immoral and irreligious. Owing to
?! the activities of Shaikh Abdulla bin Isa, President of
the Education committee, and one or tv/o travelled and
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enlightened merchants a girls’ school was opened in
Maharak 3ome eight months ago. The religious and
conservative element disapproved intensely and the
experiment v/as z/enounced from the pulpits of the mosques.
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In spite of this sohool thrived. Tho v/omen of the
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