Keshub Chandra Sen - Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have vis

Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have visited some of the best schools in Bengal and Bombay, and I can say from my own experience that there are a larger number of girls receiving public education in Bombay than in Bengal; but while Bengal has not come up to Bombay as far as regarded extent of education, Bengal is not behind Bombay in the matter of solidarity and depth.

- Keshub Chandra Sen

source: Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, May 13, 1870.

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