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Calcutta University, setting forth some of the results reached 
by her in this field. Mr. Manomoban Ganguli, author of 
‘Orissa and its Remains,”’ is also delivering a series of lectures, 
under the auspices of the University, on the architecture of 
ancient India from this view-point; while Mr. Sen, Jamini 
Kanta, in his brilliant work “ Art-o-Ahitagni’”’ has expounded 
an attractive theory. No impartial critic can, for a moment. 
lay down that this new method of treatment is wholly correct 
1am not pledged to accept either the old or the new ; indeed, 
to my mind, both the old and the new contain elements of 
truth, and unless the partisans of both thresh out the subject 
thoroughly, we cannot hope to reach the unalloyed truth. 
Tt will thus be admitted that the labours of scholars work- 
ing in various fields have brought to light a vast 
cursory glance at the pages of the first volume of the Cam- 
bridge History. We must not overlook, however, that the 
magnitude of the task is so great that a work of this character 
and inevitable limitations. It was, however, readily acknow- 
ledged as a helpful advance over what had preceded, and it 
was in fact entitled to unreserved credit as the first systematic 
attempt to compress a bewildering mass of materials of the 
most diverse character into a fairly well-connected narration. 
ave hitherto referred specifically only to such materials, 
literary and archeological, as have been discovered within 
the geographical limits of India. But it is manifest that one 
cannot ignore the wealth of materials which abound in what 
was in ancient times rightly regarded as a greater India. It 
would be folly to overlook the remains of Indian Civilisation 
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