Indian Historical Records Commission Proceedings of Meetings Seventeenth Meeting Held at Baroda December 1940

Proceedings of the Members' meeting.. 1-19 APPENDIX A— Inspection note of the Keeper of the Records of the Government of India on the Maintenance of the Records in the Alienation Office Poona 1-13 APPENDICES B (I-II)- Reports of the second and third meetings of the Local Records Sub-Committee APPENDIX Report of the Research work done by the Corresponding members of the Indian Historical Recor [...] Above all Baroda City has been a centre of the brightest light in the fields of intellectual activity the cultvation of the fine arts and elevation of the general cultural level no less than in that of industrial and economic uplift and the adoption of the modern progressive spirit. [...] It was under the sway first of the Mauryas and the Kshatrapas and later of the Guptas the Valabhis the Chavadas and the Solankis. [...] At the end of the thirteenth century the Muslims conquered it and Gujerat was one of the most important provinces of the Mughals. [...] Apart from the State the individual has a contribution to make to rescuing and rconstructing the past ; the man of wealth by giving of his wealth the man with control over the material of history by making that material available to those copetent to make use of it the ordinary citizen by an active appreciation of the labours of the skilled historian.