India and the World - Monthly Organ of Internationalism and Cultural Federation March 1933

For the purpose of administering this Act a Federal Board for Vocational Education consisting of the Secretary of Agriculture the Secretary of Comerce the Secretary of Labour the United States Commissioner of Eduction representative of the manufactuing and commercial interest represetative of the agricultural interests and representative of labour was created. [...] The terms of reference of the Comission confined it to the observation of the "effect of missions on the life of the peoples of the Orient". [...] Though composed in an altogether different key the book by boldly marshalling the facts of the gross violation of Christian principles in the political and economic relations of the Christian powers with the Orientals brings home to Christians as well as to non-Christian thinkers the point of view of the candid layman who examined historically the inter-relation of the secular and the religious [...] One of the early Buddhist text Divyavadana distinctly records the tradition that in the very life time of the Buddha attempts were made to preserve a replica of the ieffable form of the Master and at the express request of King Prasenajit several artists of the court attempted (though in vain) to fix in line colour and mass modulation the ever-eluding grace of the Enlightened One. [...] The centres on the East Coast that served as the rendevous of this foreign commerce were the sea-port towns of Korkai on the coast of the Pandyan kingdom Puhar the Chfila Capital the harbour at Mahbalipuram where to-day stand the rothas of the five Pandava brothers that facing boldly on the sea tell the evelasting fame of the architecture of the Pallava race ; the sea-port towns far t