Question

What was the literacy rate in Hyderabad in 1941?

• A. 34%
• B. 9.3%
• C. 24%
• D. 18%

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

9.3%

The Nizams were also suspicious of private schools that they would become centers for the propagation of anti-Nizam ideas. They actually discouraged the setting up of private Telugu medium schools and did not allow those students to join Osmania University. As a result, even by 1941, only 9.3% people of the state were literate (only 4.3% women were literate).