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The Publishing Department. 



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concerning the proposed dependency of the two former depart- 

 ments on the Agent to the Governor General in Rajputana 

 may be, it is certain that in the publishing department the 

 expert advice and help of the Asiatic Society of Bengal will 

 be very useful to the Survey. The Government of India 

 ought, I think, to take advantage of the Society's willingness 

 to help in the work and have all publications of the Survey 

 printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, under the 

 auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Again, the Society 

 might be made the depository of the publications of the 

 Survey and be entrusted the sale of them. Bardic and his- 

 torical manuscripts collected by the Survey might also be 

 committed to the custody of the Society and so, when the 

 Survey will cease to exist after having fulfilled its task, the 

 Society would remain as the custodian of all the w r ork done 

 and all the materials collected, except epigraphic records (stone- 

 inscriptions and copper-plates) which may be sent to the Raj- 

 putana Museum in Ajnier. 



Three kinds of publications of the results of the Bardic 

 and Historical Survey have been advocated above, and it is 

 advisable that all the three should be printed on the same 

 paper and size so as to form a uniform and unique collection, 

 though divided into three sections. The size that seems to be 

 the best suited for all the three purposes, is that adopted for 

 the Indian Antiquary and Epigraphia Indica, and also the new 

 series of the Billiotheca Indica published by the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal. The three publications are the following : — 



(1) The Bulletin of the Bardic and Historical Survey, a 

 quarterly publication, containing, besides progressive reports 

 of the Survey etc., notices of important discoveries in regard 

 to manuscripts as well as historical remains, editions of small 

 bardic songs, articles on bardic and historical subjects, and 

 similar multiform and minute information which cannot be 

 given except in a periodical. Each number will eonsist of two 

 forms for 16 pages, which will make 64 pages in the year. 

 The tirage will include 500 copies and the annual cost according 

 to the estimate of the Baptist Mission Press, Rs. 3 a page, will 

 be Rs. 200. 



(2) The Descriptive Catalogue of Bardic and Historical Manu- 

 scripts. — This publication will be divided into three sections : 

 one containing descriptions of manuscripts of prose chronicles 

 including Khyatas and general historical information, another 

 containing descriptions of manuscripts of bardic and histori- 

 cal poems, and the third containing descriptions of collections 

 of miscellaneous bardic songs (phutakara kavitd). They will 

 be printed separately, though, as far as possible, contempo- 



