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War and Morality
METHODS OF RESEARCH WORK IN THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY
Sometime ago the educated public of India were startled by the following statement from the pen of Professor Jadunath Sarkar, the eminent Historian and Research Scholar —
“I am not fit to be ranked with the band of research p.r.s’s and ph.d’s, of the new Calcutta school. My method of work is also different.” (Modern Review, February 1921, p 240)
I believe all graduates of the University of Calcutta are proud of the achievements of Professor Jadunath Sarkar in the field of Historical Research and it is really most astonishing to find that not a single voice has been raised to enquire why this eminent Scholar refuses to be ranked with the band of Research Scholars who have risen recently into prominence in the same University. It is a matter of very great regret, a matter which deserves detailed enquiry and serious consideration on the part of all members, old and new, of the University of Calcutta. Jadunath Sarkar needs no introduction to the Indian Public. In Europe his name ranks very high and after the death of William Irvine he is regarded as the only authority on Indian History of the Mughal Period. From the veiled references in Professor Sarkar’s rejoinder to Mr. Panchanan Mitra’s criticism of his article on “University Problems Of To-Day” it is very difficult for a man who is not conversant with the different undercurrents of thought or the deep-water policies of the different factions of the Calcutta University to understand what impelled an eminent scholar like Professor Jadunath Sarkar to make such a sweeping statement.
From a footnote on page 238 of the February issue of the Modern Review it is to be understood that Professor Sarkar’s remarks apply only to the arts section of the Faculty of Post-graduate Studies of the Calcutta University. From what appears in the papers about the progress of the post-graduate department of the Calcutta University one understands that very good research work is being done by that body. The Ph. D’s and the P. R. S.’s of the Calcutta University include such emiment luminaries as Professor Radha
