New Asia - An Organ of Oriental Culture and Thought January 1940

The young teachers and students help their professors to conduct original studies in the natural and medical sciences rural improvement and the social sciences Oriental language studies the historical records of the Near East and educational problems of the day. [...] Our neighbour in the near East in this hour of need may prove to be a friend in-deed ! Made in England or Made in U. S. A. and Made in France are terms no doubt to the discriminate buyer and the fashionable few who 11"8 NEW ASIA affords but to the mass of our countrymen those are like the glares of Metro " the dazzling neon signs over The Firpo's or the "Grand " the the hall mark of "Hall & Ande [...] A series of lithic industries from the earliest stone age to the close of the upper palaeolithic datable with the pleistocene glacial cycle in the Himalayas illustrates how the ancient valleys of the north-west Punjab were occupied by stone-age folks for a considerable time. [...] So far in the most unfortunate absence of human fossils the discovery of their cultures go a good deal to the reconstruction of the history of human kind of the unchronicled past of India. [...] The low-level detrital laterites particularly in the eascoast of south India specially in the presidency of Madras are practically studded with artefacts and hold the key for the dating of the latter.