Rasamala Athva Gujarat Prantno Itihas

SR No.: 034594
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Alexander Kinlock Farbas
Publisher: Farbas Gujarati Sabha
Publication Year: 1922
Total Pages: 642
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 46 MB

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ફાર્બસ સંબંધમાં સંભાવિતાનાં સંમત
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છૅ. મુંબઇની સમસ્તશાલાના (યુનિવર્સિટીના) વાર્ષિક સમાજમાં તેના પ્રમુખ ગવર્નર સર ખાર્ટલ ક્રૂર જેવા ગૃહસ્થે પણ ફાર્બસના સદ્ગમનથી વિદ્યોપાસક વર્ગને થએલી હાનિ સખેદ વર્ણી છે.
"That this society place on record the expression of their deep sorrow for the death of the Hon'ble Mr. Justice Forbes, one of their Vice-Presidents, and their testimony to his eminent abilities, varied accomplishments, and grace of manner; to his important services in the illustration of the literature and antiquities of Gujarat; and to his high character, and exemplary life, which reflected honor on the British Government in India, and won the affection of all classes of the natives with whom he held public or social intercourse."
The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol VIII 1863-65. p. lxxxiv (84).
"The report which the registrar has read alludes in fitting terms to the loss of our late Vice-Chancellor (the Hon'ble Mr. A. Kinlock Forbes) and he could have no more fitting eulogy than the sorrow thus expressed, of the senate over which he presided*. But I may be pardoned if I point the late Mr. Alexander Kinlock Forbes out to those of my own countrymen who desire to aid in the great work of the University, as a bright example of what they have it in their power to do. It was not his intellectual ability, great as that was, nor his learning and accomplishments, though we know them to have been profound and
"The Syndicate cannot conclude this report without an expression of feeling at the untimely decease (at Poona in August 1865), of the late Vice-Chancellor the Hon'ble A. Kinlock Forbes after a brief tenure of office during which his refined accomplishments and judicial equability of mind endeared him to the University."
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