द ब्यूटीफुल ट्री: १८वीं सदी में भारत की स्वदेशी गुरुकुल शिक्षा (धर्मपाल)

would add, in removing obstacles to good understanding between the British and the Indian peoples. With all good wishes, Believe me, Yours sincerely, Sd/- P. Hartog Mahatma M.K. Gandhi, The Asram, Wardha, C.P., India. P.S. I had intended sending a copy of my book to Professor K.T. Shah, but I have been unable to find his present address from any of the books of reference. Perhaps you would kindly let me know what has become of him? P.J.H . . . . 2 May 1939 Professor K.T. Shah, 45 Chowpatty Road, Bombay (7) Dear Professor Shah, I sent to you a few weeks ago a book of mine recently published by the Oxford University Press, called ‘Some Aspects on Indian Education, Past and Present’, which I hope you have duly received. I intended to write to you at the same time, but have been working under extreme pressure. As you will see, the book includes three ‘Payne Lectures’ given at the Institute of Education dealing with general problems, historical and actual, of Indian education, and also three memoranda in which I have examined in detail the arguments in the letter which you wrote to me in February, 1932 at Mahatma Gandhi’s request, in support of his statement at Chatham House that literacy had diminished in India during the previous fifty or a hundred years. You will perhaps remember that in my reply (of 10 March 1932) I pointed out that you had not touched on the question of the previous fifty years, and that I was unable to accept your conclusions in regard to the history of literacy in Bengal in the previous hundred years, of which there remained a good deal to be said. 381