Annual Report of the Watson Museum of Antiquities Rajkot for the Year 1920-21

GENTLEMEN I have the honour to submit the following Annual Report of the working of the Museum for the year 1920-21. [...] I saw the Private Secretary to the Thakur Saheb and the Head Master of the High School and created some interest in the people for antiquarian subjects and returned the next day to Rajkot.6 I then heard that the articles that were formerly kept in the Bahdurkhanji Museum at Junagadha had been removed to the Darbar Hall and the Shakkar Bagh and that the Museum no longer existed there. [...] The Department has sufficient work to do of reviving the Museum and enrching it with exhibits of various kinds which can easily be secured in the State itself of publishing together all the inscriptions in the State which are so many and so important for the local history of Kathiawar if not for the history of India and F. 1 preserving the ruined and ancient works of wide fame in the State [...] in a position to give us at present any idea of the probable cost but the cost however high it may be will not be out of reach of the capacity of the Watson Museum to buy the same as the annual Budgets for. [...] My opiniou is that the Museum should go in for the purchase of the coins which are bouud to add to the value and usefulness of the Insttution and so I beg to say that the committee may accept the otter made and that they may allow me to reply to the Director General of Archceology accordingly.