February, 1920.] Annual Address. XXV 
Punjab and U.P. and the Research Society of Bihar and Orissa 
are among the new accessions of strength to the cause of Orien- 
tal studies. The Punjab Society holding its sittings in Simla 
where they get eminent men like Sir John Marshall to read 
papers in it, have an advantage over them all. But the Bihar 
and Orissa Research Society under the Presidentship of Sir 
Edward Gait has within the last five or six years done an im- 
mense amount of original work outside official circles. Sir 
Edward seeks independent research not dominated either by 
officialism or partizanship, and some of the Society’s contribu- 
tions have attracted the attention of the whole body of ori- 
ental scholars. The journals are appearing punctually to time, 
first under the editorship of Babu Sarat Chandra Roy and then 
under that of the distinguished scholar, Mr. K. P. Jayaswal, 
M.A. (Oxon), Barrister-at-Law. r. Jayaswal is himself an 
enthusiastic contributor, and has devoted himself to the eluci- 
dation of the history of the Mauryan and Sisunaga periods. 
His paper on the SaiSuaga Statuesin the Calcutta Museum 
contains much that is bold and original, and it has taken all 
Indologists by surprise. 
Of the local associations, the first to be named is the Ban- 
giya Sahitya Parisad, which was established in the Bengali year 
1300 and under its enthusiastic Secretary, the late lamented 
Babu Ramendra Sundar Trivedi, has made wonderful progress 
and established its branches almost in every district town of 
Bengal and beyond it—at Patna, Benares, Delhi, Meerut and 
other places. Some do not want to be branches, such as, the 
Sahitya Parisads. There are the Hindi Sahitya Parisad, Guz- 
rati Sahitya Parisad, Marbatti Sahitya Parisad, and so on. 
The Nagari Pracarini Sabha of Benares is an older society 
and it is doing good work too. 
need not detain you, gentlemen, with a description of 
the widely well-known Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society 
of Great Britain and Ireland and its branches, the Epigraphia 
Indica, the Indian Antiquary, the Journal of the American 
Oriental Society, the Journal Asiatique of France, and so 
w darkness. Gradually bright patches of 
real history of former centuries began to attract the attention 
of scholars and the patches ally increased a i- 
