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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 5, p. 267.

AL WAR CITY 267 In regard to the literacy of its population Alwar stands twelfth among the twenty States and chiefships of Rajputana, with 2-7 per cent. (5-I males and o-i females) able to read and write. Excluding 32 indige- nous schools attended by 500 boys, there are now 103 educational insti- tutions in the State. The number on the rolls in 1904 was. about 5,500, and the daily average attendance nearly 4,200. Of the schools, six are maintained by the United Free Church of Scotland Mission, and the rest by the State. There are altogether I2 schools for girls, attended by about 300 pupils. English is taught in the high school, the nobles' school, and the mission school at the capital, and also at Rajgarh and Tijara. The total expenditure on education is about Rs. 42,000 a year, and towards this sum the school cess of i per cent. on the land revenue, fees, and miscellaneous receipts contribute over Rs. 23,000. Including the Imperial Service regimental hospitals and that attached to the jail, there are now i2 hospitals in the State, with accommoda- tion for 240 in-patients. In 1904 the number of cases treated was 99,673 (2,550 being those of in-patients), and 6,700 operations were performed. The most notable institutions are at the capital: namely, the Lady Dufferin Hospital for women (with 54 beds), opened in i889, and the general hospital (with 60 beds), opened originally as a dispensary in 1859. The latter is to be replaced by a new hospital, now under construction, named after Her Majesty, Queen Alexandra. The total expenditure on medical relief in 1904 was about Rs. 32,000, of which two-thirds was contributed by the dispensary cess of i per cent. on the land revenue. Vaccination was started seriously about i87o; it is voluntary everywhere, but with very few exceptions the inhabitants readily submit their children to the operation. A staff of 15 vaccinators under a native Superintendent is maintained; and in 1904-5 the number of persons successfully vaccinated was 25,163, or more than 30 per I,ooo of the population. [P. W. Powlett, Gazetteer of Alwar (1878); Rajputatna Gazetteer, vol. iii (Simla, i880, under revision); W. H. Neilson, Medico-topo- graphical Account of Ulwar (I897) : M. F. O'Dwyer, Settlement Reports (I898-1901) ; Administration Reports (1892-6 and 1904-5).] Alwar City.-Capital of the State of the same name in Rajput- ana, situated in 27° 34' N. and 76° 36' E., on the Rajputana-Malwa Railway, 98 miles south-west of Delhi, 792 miles north-east of Bombay, and about 1,050 miles north-west of Calcutta. Several modes of deriv- ing its name are current. Some say that it was formerly called Alpur or ' strong city'; others that its old name was Arbalpur or the city of the Arballi (or Aravalli) range, with which the Alwar hills are connected. General Cunningham' was inclined to think that its name was derived Archaeological Survey of Northern India, vol. xx, p. 120.