Gujarat Varnacular Societyno Itihas Part 02

Author(s): Hiralal Tribhuvandas Parekh
Publisher: Hiralal Tribhuvandas Parekh

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Committee welcome most heartily Your Highness's visit to this ancient Capital of Gujarat.
2. It is highly gratifying and pleasing to the Society to greet in the person of Your Highness one of the foremost Champions of Vernacular literature and advocates of the spread of education. With princely munificence Your Highness has founded the Maha Rani Shri Naniba Pathshala for the regeneration of Sanscrit learning and has breathed new life into the Hindi College of the Ars Poetica established by Your Highness's Royal ancestor Maha Rao Shri Lakhpatji. The Alfred High School, the Middle Schools and Vernacular Schools scattered all over Kutch, along with the Art School and similar other institutions bear further testimony to the great interest Your Highness takes in the cause of education. The Society is indebted to the Kutch State for the endowment of the Kutch Gibbs' Memorial Fund and it is to the Kutch State that it owes the munificent Diwan Bahadoor Manibhai Jasbhai Memorial Fund. Your Highness's zeal for the cultivation of Gujarati literature is further evinced by the employment of distinguished authors like Professor Manilal N. Dwivedi to write works of classical excellence and by generous encouragement to literary publications.
3. The Gujarat Vernacular Society too has been working on these lines for the spread of education and cultivation of Gujarati literature. Established in the year 1848 under the auspices of the Honourable A. K. Forbes, the Society has steadily risen in the esteem and regard of the public.