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Studies in Jainology, Prakrit
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A slinghtly revised and amplified version of the paper presented at the Staff Academy, Karnatak Arts College, Dharwad on 11.10. 1981 and published in the Tulasī Prajñā, Vol. XVII-3,1991. (i) For more details vide German Indology, Shakuntala publishing house, Bombay, 1969, pp.1-3. (ii) During this period in India there was no planned or regularised provision for Indological or Oriental studies. However the Central Government, on the recommendation of the Butler Committee that met at Simla in 1911, decided to depute every year two Indian Young Scholars to the Western Universities to study the functioning and proceedings of the International Congress of Orientalists that had held its first session in Paris in 1873. Shri P.D.Gune was the first to get such benefit. The last scholar so deputed in 1921 was Shri P.L. Vaidya. In 1921, education became the State subject; and, hence, this scheme stopped there alone. (iii) Shri P.D.Gune returned from Germany in 1914. At the same time Shri S.K.Belavalkar returned from U.S.A. Whatever new Research Methodology and Oriental knowledge they had brought with themselves, was appreciated and actively encouraged by a team of other scholars and the result was the birth of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute at poona in 1917. Gradually Indology and Oriental studies were put on a new track of teaching and research, Shri A.N.Upadhye was the first to get his Master's Degree in Prakrit, taught and trained by Dr.P.L. Vaidya,
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