The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India March 1884

The Report dwells on the satisfactory evidence that exists of the abilities and intellectual capacity of Indian women referring to the traditions of the paSt and to the many instances in the present of their successful conduct of affairs public and private and of their powers of study. [...] The section of the Report devoted to the education of chiefs and minors again shows the persistent manner in which the orders of the Judges are evaded. [...] The tenth chapter is devoted to the very important subject of The Political Economy of the Indian Empire ; " and it is satisfactory to be able to state that in the opinion of the author the finances of India are in a condition altogether sound. [...] The twelfth chapter is devoted to a consideration of the monetary practice amongst the natives of India ; it was orginally delivered as an address before the Institute of Bankers and is concluded in the following words :— I would recommend you to encourage as much as in you lies the improvement in India of the law of debtor and creditor the extension of saving-banks the permission for native [...] Thus while describing the death of Karna the monstrous brother of Ravana the poet speaks of the arrow shot by Rama in these terms—" Then the hero took up from his quiver an arrow named Indrastra which was bright as a sunbeam potent as the mace of Brahma the shaft of death and the force of destiny combined imperturbable keen well-feathered and endowed with the velocity of the winds ! " "Ra