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from amongst the persons he thinks best qualified for the work. 

 The editor has a full control over all his subordinates and can 

 dismiss them and put others in their place whenever circum- 

 stances may seem to require it. A changing of the subordinates 

 will be particularly necessary whenever the central office shall 

 be transferred from one seat to another, as people of one State 

 cannot be expected to be intimately acquainted with the 

 bardic and historical literature of another State, though in the 

 particular case of States connected in blood, language and 

 history, as for instance Jodhpur and Bikaner, the same men 

 may perhaps be successfully utilized. The services of all 

 subordinate officers being accordingly required only for a 



certain time, their employment will be considered as a tem- 

 porary one. 



As regards the nature and conditions of the appointment of 

 the editor and local superintendent, I hardly like to make any 

 suggestions, lest I might be accused of writing in support of 

 my own interests. But it may not seem too much to ask that, 

 since the Bardic and Historical Survey of Rajputana is such a 

 vast work that it can never be hoped to be completed in one's 

 lifetime, the appointment be made a permanent one and 

 considered as an appointment under Government. I am only 

 twenty-six now and am ready to spend all my life in the service 

 of the Government of India, for a work that is a labour of love 

 with me. I have been called to India on a trial appointment 

 for one year on a stipend of Rs. 500 per mensem. If the 

 present Scheme and specimens of publications are a sufficient 

 testimony to my being qualified for the work, my appointment 

 might be made a permanent one from the first of April 1915, 

 and the stipend of Rs. 500 a month be considered as an initial 

 one to be increased according to the Indian Educational 

 service Regulations. 



The stipend of the Marwarl Pandit and of the Carana would 

 be Rs. 600 and Rs. 420, respectively'. For the former I would 

 appoint Pandit Rama Karna of Jodhpur, a Dahima brahman, 

 aged 55, who has made a particular study of the history and 

 antiquities of Marwar as well as of inscriptions, and is versed 

 in Sanscrit as well as in Hindi and Marwari. His designation 

 would be " First Assistant to the Editor etc. ' ' For the Carana 

 or «< Second Assistant", I would appoint Kisora Dana of 

 Lolavas in the pargana of Jodhpur, a Baratha Carana, aged 

 about 40, who is by far the best learned bard I ever came 

 across in Marwar. As noted above, the latter assistant would 

 work half time in the editing and the other half in the searching 

 department, but his appointment should be considered as pro- 

 perly belonging to the editing, where his services are more 

 urgently required. 



•ii 1 hG ?Jf: ° f theEditi ng and Local Superintending Office 

 will be Jodhpur, as long as the Sufvpv h*« tn ,W1 with the 



