Seven in One Thousand Can Read
According to the government census of 1910, of India's 144,000,000 women, only 500,000 of the 35,400,000 between the ages of five and fifteen are in school; only seven out of every thousand can read and write; 2,273,345 girls under ten years of age are wives; social and caste law enforces widowhood upon 26,000,000 women; or in other words, the number of widows in India is sufficient to constitute two thirds of the population of England, or almost one third the entire population of the United States.