The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c3.26

c3.26

"Professor Benoy Kumar Sarkar's scheme of educational works is based on sound and advanced ideas of educational science and as such is well calculated to impart a valuable stimulus to the diffusion of culture in the country. Professor Sarkar's notes on medieval and modern history, on economics and on politics show wide knowledge of the subject matter and are evidently the outcome of a mind trained in habits of clear, patient and accurate thinking. His brochure on the study of language may serve as a useful summary of present-day ideas on the subject, and he has given practical illustrations of some of these in his *Lessons on English*, and on *Sanskrit*, which, so far as they go, especially the latter, are an improvement on existing guides and handbooks. Professor Sarkar's programme is certainly an ambitious one, but he is fully qualified to carry it out, and there can be no doubt that it will be found to be a healthy and stimulating force in the Indian educational world of today, especially with the correction and expansion it must receive in the light of practice and experience."