Indian Historical Records Commission. Proceedings of Meetings of the Twenty-Sixth Session Cuttack December 1949

OF INDIA PRESS NEW DELHI AND PUBLISHED BY THE MANAGER OF PUBLICATIONS DELHI 1950CONTENTS PAGES Proceedings of the Public Meeting 1-16 Welcome Address of Maharaja of Parlakimedi. Inaugural speech bf His Excellency the Governor of Orissa Personnel of the Indian Historical Records Commission. 8-16 Proceedings of the Business Meetings— Proceedings of the fourteenth meeting of the Research and Publi [...] APPENDIX—A Constitution of the International Council on Archives 70-78 APPENDIX—R Proceedings of the fourth rneeti.ig of the Documentation Sectional Committee 79-80 APPENDIC Constitution of the Central Advisory Board of Archaeology 81-82 APPEN D IX - Constitution of the Board of Historical Records and Ancient Monuments in Bombay 83-86 APPENDIX—E Annual Report of the Vindhya (Baghelkhand) Histor [...] So the history of the 17th century of Orissa can be enriched by the study of records preserved in the languages of the F.:e.eh Dutch and Danes. [...] To take only the Hebrew and Indian.scriptures one finds a curious similarity of approach in the Genesis and the Puranas both of which attempt to encompass the origin of this Universe and the human race as successive chapters of the same story. [...] When H. G. Wells brought out his "Outline of History" his treatment of the subject proceeded along the same route although in the light of the latest scientific discoveries he discarded the fruits of the Ancient's imagination and built up a scientifically integral concept of the Universe in which after reviewing all the stages of evolution he traced the origin of man and pursued his activities ri