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of successful graduates was awarded the Dakshina fellowship. Two years after, he got his M. A. Degree by taking Sanskrit grammer as his optional subject. That even in his college days Mr. Dalal was engaged in research work is evidenced by the fact that in 1910 he contributed to the "Jain Sasana" of Benares a paper on "Hirvijaya Suri or the Jains of the court of Akbar." This paper threw new light on the history of Akbar and made the basis of the of the paper "Jain Teachers of Akbar" by famous historian Vincent A. Smith in the "Bhandarkar Memorial Volume.
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Just at this time H. H. The Maharaja Gaekwad was organising the Central Library Department at Baroda under advice of Mr. Borden an American expert and was looking out for bright University graduates to take up training in Modern Librarianship. Devoted to study and seclusion by nature as he was, Mr. Dalal found that here was an opening for his future career, just in accordance with his heart's desire as if held temptingly before him by a specially kind Providence. He at once went in for the library training in spite of the poor scholarship of Rs. 25 a month for one year's probationery period and was after the year's training appointed to the higher grade of liabrarians. Since then he had been doing very successfully the varied duties of a librarian, some
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