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for educational or religious purposes. There were very few original 

 works of any importance, and those that have appeared are mainly de- 

 voted to religious controversy, Sikh, Hindu, Musalman, or Christian. 



North- Western Provinces and Oudh. — The opening, during the year, 

 of the new University at Allahabad supplies a long-felt want in the 

 N. W. Provinces and Oudh. Hitherto the local institutions were affi- 

 liated to the Calcutta University, where there could be little sympathy 

 or encouragement for the study of the local vernaculars, which, it is 

 hoped, will now receive the attention that they so much deserve and 

 need. The issues during the year, excluding periodicals, amounted 

 to 800, of which 25 were in English, 361 Urdu, 261 Hindi, 31 Sans- 

 krit, 19 Arabic, 69 Persian, and 30 polyglot. There were, as in the 

 Panjab, very few original works of value, though mention may be 

 made of some treatises on medicine and on mathematics intended for 

 educational purposes. Parts of Tulsidas's Ramayana have gone through 

 several editions, and in the ^ Vijaya-doliavaW an attempt is made to 

 explain the obscure dolids, chaupdis, and soratlids occurring in that work. 

 Other Provinces. — Burma, Assam, and the Central Provinces, as might 

 be expected, present but a meagre record. In Burma, there are numerous 

 manuscripts both in Burmese and Pali, but the aid of the printing-press 

 has been little resorted to, and there is here a tolerably wide field open 

 to students. In Assam, Bengalis are the principal writers, and their 

 works, for the most part, are mere translations or simply reprints of Ben- 

 gali works, usually of a religious character. 



Archmological Survey. — The survey of the Archaeological remains in 

 each Province continues to be prosecuted as vigorously as the organisa- 

 tion at the disposal of the Department admits. In the Panjdb, Mr. 

 Rodgers has given the fruits of some of his labours in articles which 

 will appear iu our Journal, especially that relating to the old temple of 

 Nurpur in Kangra, besides collecting a large number of inscriptions. 

 In Bengal, Mr. Beglar and his assistants have been employed on the 

 ruins at Gaur in the Malda district and in Tirhut, but no detailed 

 report is as yet available. 



N. W. Provinces. — Dr. Piihrer, with Mr. E. W. Smith in charge of 

 the survey in the N. W. Provinces and Central Provinces, in the begin- 

 ning of the year, made a tour through Banda and parts of Allahabad 

 and Bundelkhand, visiting Pratishthanapur, Bithabhayapattana, Bhatta- 

 grama or Garhwa, Kausambi, Prabhasa, Kalanjar, Mahoba, Rahilya and 

 other important sites, and collecting numerous inscriptions, long and short, 

 of which Dr. Fiihrer has translated 10 Arabic, 24 Persian, and over 250 

 Sanskrit inscriptions in his report. Amongst these are 24 Gupta ones, 

 and over 35 belonging to the sixth and seventh centuries ; all of which 



