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Calvin R. Rensch
figure is higher than for any of the other communities studied
and is doubtless reflective of access to education and of frequent
travel. The proportion of men receiving some education is ten
percent higher for Sherpur than for the other three communities.
Also, they have, on the whole, completed more years of
education, as indicated by the fact that the median point of
education among Sherpur men falls in the 6-10 years category
whereas it falls in the 1-5 years category in the other three
communities. It should be noted that there are two primary
schools and one high school in Sherpur, whereas there is one
primary school but no high school in Singo Di Garhi and in
Jammun. Balakot, on the other hand, has education through
college level.
Sherpur residents — both those in the Hindko-speaking
households of this study and those in the Pashto-speaking
households — also have opportunities to improve at least their
passive ability in Urdu through access to radio and television.
Fifteen percent of all the households of Sherpur report having a
television set and fifty-six percent report having a radio. By
contrast, only twenty-seven percent of the respondents in Singo
Di Garhi report having radios and none has a television set, the
latter situation due to the fact that Singo Di Garhi does not have
access to electricity, whatever other factors may be involved.
Travel may well be an additional contributor to the use of
Urdu by residents of Sherpur. Large percentages of the
respondents report having traveled to the following localities:
Abbottabad (93%)
Rawalpindi (90%)
Peshawar, Lahore (77% each)
Karachi (64%)
Most of those who have traveled to Abbottabad report that
they have visited there more than twenty times but have never
stayed as long as one week. This is due largely to the fact that
residents of Sherpur must pass through Abbottabad on their way
to the Grand Trunk Road en route to the other cities which they