INDIAN CULTURE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 16

INDIAN CULTURE.

"* T t » 'I ,w " UNIVERSITY CHAIR SlT^GlSS^m (FBOM OTO O~TO coßakuom>WT.> ' , ' January \ ;'A letter to "The ■ a chair of Indian one English, university. V' * ■ "We Me ofopinion," the signatories stutf, "that it is imperative, both academically *aid Imperially/ that Indian, .cultural stadW should "be represented ipy the dignity of & cljair an at least ;on&- Engl&li this sS jft jlecfesaityi not ,ionly in?; order 1 ,that an" u6der!(tftn|iig of o lni?tßWd i 9 iundet, tjio dijgiplino -of ,«*• - pert teachlngiin&y be 1 led to'.the Mrijly , •of 'their own environment and ao to a proper apprecUrtlo4«',<ofit aad its *pr6blems,'!; v Th4>< tea^ng'.-we 1 ' have -.in ,mind '.ftrtmded' onaecientitoc; 'basis, hiaWriealj l ajfbhaeological, ' and,. atid include' "the" fine arts as well as the industrial tfrnfM,. their, ' dis&ibutipjv, development and .technology.'• l ' 4 _ -."Such a; chair-be <,a 'fitting" > complement - to.- existirig" 'ehftixs- of {-Sitf-* * 4 'Bkrit and Indian- > f Tjie ( necessalry material iff to a large .exte&t already aco6sflible ,wa the>unxqj|ie *esJei£*. tions at the British Museum, the India' Museum, South'Kenftipgton, and * the India Office Library, provide unrivalled opportunities, not only lor such teaching, but >r v advanced research. Moreover, Indian cultural' studies would,thus tak« their rightful f place -with classical archaeology, 1 Egyptology, Assyriology, and general thropplogy. We are of the opinion that a representatha committee should' be called into being bs soon as possible to discuss this important matter in d&; tail." j