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490 creation of chairs for subjects like Indian Philosophy and Religion, Vedic Language, Literature and Culture, Pali Language, Literature and Culture, and Indian Anthropology. The list is plainly not exhaustive and further recommendations on similar lines were made by the Commission for other branches of study as well. All over India there exist vast masses of unexplored historical material in many languages. We need only refer to the contents of the Government archive-rooms, the admirably kept archives of His Exalted Highness the Nizam at Hyderabad, and the large Maratha collections at Poona. The history of India cannot be fully explored until these collections are made available. They are not made effectively “available merely by throwing open the archive-rooms to scholars. What is necessary is that all the most valuable materials should be printed and translated into English. This work can only be carried out by the Universities, and the Calcutta University Commission suggested the production ‘of a great series of Monumenta Historica Indica like the Rolls Series and the Record Office publications in England. India needs nothing more than a wide diffusion of that sanely critical spirit in dealing with men and institutions which historical investigation should create. This is one of the greatest functions of a University : that of Stimulating and Promoting Research. Every University must see that its teachers and graduates have access to the means of independent investigation, if for no other reason, for the maintenance of its own intellectual vitality. The truth is that we require more education and better education and we have no doubt that the demand for the highest type of education will increase as the requisite facilities become more and more available. Finally, in disposing of the present topic under discussion we should take into account the considered verdict of the Calcutta University Commission in support of the existing Post-Graduate system. The Commissioners refer in eloquent terms to “the remarkable expansion of Post-Graduate Teaching