Journal of the Banaras Hindu University (General Section)

The central and essential feature of the Report was its insistence on the necessity of building up strong and co-ordinated academic departments in all univesities undertaking either the initiation or the further development of one or another aspect of oriental learning ; but it continued to lay upon the the University of London in its School of Oriental and African Studies the duty of pursuing [...] As a result of this and of the interest and enthusiasm of so many of the young men returning from abroad after the War the development of the School the expansion of its staff and the increase in the number of serious university students during the past five years has within its own sphere been comparable with the marvellous development of this University to the admiration for which I gave exp [...] For the University of Loudon in adopting the term 'School' for several of its institutions such as the School of Slavonic Studies the School of Economics the School of Tropical Medicine and so on recalls the medival use of the Latin word %chola' to denote a part of a university. [...] Now the preparation for a First Degree whether in an oriental subject or in any other entails the metamorphosis of the student from the state of the undergraduate or rather the schoolboy to the state of a graduate—the intellectual counterpart of the emergence of the buttefly from its chrysalis—andthe time in which this metamorphosis is expected to be realised is normally the space of three ye [...] The T'ang built upon the foundations of polity and culture laid in the past under the Chou the Chin and the Han The T'ang came after the oppressive rule of the Sui dynasty.