Gujarat Varnacular Societyno Itihas Part 02

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

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Famines
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Rs. 300. Translation of 174 pages of Todd's Rs. 400.
Rajasthan.
No competent writers were available to under. take the works and prizes still continue. unawarded. There are several other works of a higher nature which the Society wishes to take up, but for want of scholars to undertake them they have to be postponed indefinitely.
When there are greater facilities for higher education, the growth of vernacular literature is neces. sarily greater. We find that notwithstanding the efforts of a special society like ours the Marathi speaking population is in advance of us in the matter of publications.
9. The importance of the vernacular languages as the media through which alone the mass of the people of India can be made to advance in intelligence and the necessity of enriching them was fully recognised in the Despatch of 1854 (see para 14 of the Despatch.) The Honourable Court laid down there that “the Vernacular languages must be employed to teach the far larger classes who are ignorant of or imperfectly acquainted with English. This can only be done effectually through the instrumentality of masters and professors who may,