Calcutta Geographical Review. September 1936

Along the south of the Tibet drainage area of these Ganges tribtaries runs the great chain of snowy peaks from Gosainthan and Gaurisankar through Everest and Makalu to Chomohiari One (If the petuliaritics of Himalayan geography is the way in \\inch most of the great rivers of Northern India take their rise on the plateau of Tibet behind the main chain of the Himalayas and force their ways throu [...] When we consider that the subject is gaining greater popularity and wider recognition in educational institutions in Europe and America when we find that the subject has been raised to the dignity of a Science from the plane of mere opinion it is certainly time to examine the ideology at the back of the traditional conception of Geography in the minds of Indian educationists which makes it the w [...] It is the business of the geographer to trace the development of the world's work from the primitive hunting stage through the stages of pastoral and agricultural life to the coming of the modern man. [...] The known world is the province of the geographer and the complete work of man from the earliest stage to that of the civilised man of to-day furnishes the material for his study. [...] This position of Geography as the subject in the school and c011ege course which fosters in the student of to-day a feeling of -world-mindedness can be best stated in the actual words of Professor Atwood of Clark University on the occasion of the presidential address at the meeting of the National Council of Geography Teachers.