The Dawn and Dawn Society’s Magazine December 1910

Coomaraswamy a large number of workers both in this country and in England have been steadily devoting their time and energies to the work of a reverent elucidation of the basic principles and ideals of Indian culture and civilisation under the impulse of an over-mastering feeling of the all-importance of those principles and ideals as a factor in the evolution of not only an Indian Nation but of [...] The National Indian Assocition of Madras started with the object of reviving Indian arts and industries had sent to the Exhibition their representative Mr: N K. Padmanabha Pillai a native of Travancore (who had been studying the art of dyeing at Bombay at the expense of the Association) to demontrate at the Exhibition the several processes of dyeing. [...] The subject of the lectures on both the days was Irrigation and Agriculture with special reference to the conditions of the Taluks of Vilvencoda Neyythinkara and Trivandrum." The lecturer Dr. [...] the able and active Director of Agriculture Travancore State delivered the lectures in Malayalam the vernacular language of northern and central Travancore and it is noteworthy as evidence of the great interest taken by the Travancore authorities that the' highest official of the State the Dewan Mr. [...] Such was the function of the bisokotuwa of the Sinhalese engineers ; they were the first inventors of the valve-pit more than 2100 years ago It was a triumph of the ingenuity of the ancient Sinhalese engineers and the more surprising when we find one of the earliest sluices furnished with it " (i.