History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c97.34

v7.c97.34

The usual method in India as regards Histories or Encyclo-pædias in several volumes (running into thousands of pages) is to appoint a Director or Chief Editor (on a salary of Rs 1500 per month), an Assistant Editor (on a salary of Rs 600 or Rs 750 per month) and to pay contributors at Rs five or so per page, beside an office and a staff of clerks and typists The Director's salary on the usual scale for one year alone would come to Rs. 18,000 The payments made and to be made to me for writing a work of over six thousand pages spread over 37 years come practically to one year's salary for a Chief Editor (or rather less by Rs 3700 which were spent for typewriting, correction, and copies etc as stated above) I do not like this distasteful task I had, however, to write about this matter because I wanted to dispel the queer notions about my profits that some people appear to entertain and made inquiries It is owing to one individual's sacrifice that all the volumes (containing over 6000 pages) can be sold by the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute for only Rs 180. If the usual method had been followed, these 6000 pages would have had to be priced at Rs 400 or more