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Silver Jubilee Souvenir Volume of Patna University

1942

"The greatest city in India " says Arrian "is that which is called Palimbothra where the streams of Erannoboas and the Ganges unite—the Ganges being the greatest of all rivers and the Erannoboas being perhaps the third largest of the Indian rivers." Now the Erannoboas of the Greeks is the river Sone the "Hiranyavahu" of the Sanskrit writers and Palimbothra therefore was the city situated at [...] VI From the records preserved in the writings of the classical writers a good deal of information about the magnificence of the royal palace the splendour of the royal court the elaborate system under which the secretariat offices were organised to govern the civil administration to the empire and the municipal institutions in the capital city can be gathered. [...] The supervision of manufactures was relegated to the fifth board and the collection of tithe (of the value of the goods sold) was placed in charge of the sixth and the last board. [...] The public buildings constructed in it include the Government House the Provincial Secretariat the Patna Museum the Legislative Block the High Court the Senate Hall of the Patna University and the Post and Telegraph Offices which are notable for their distinctive style of architecture the most striking being that of the Museum. [...] The terms of the reference to the Committee have influenced all subsquent stages of the work and are worth quoting: “(1) The university being intended for the benefit of the whole province the needs of all parts of the country and of all sections of the people should receive careful attention.
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Cover
i-ii unknowm view
Foreword
i-iii unknown view
Bihar and its Capital : Past and Present
1-22 Sachchidananda Sinha view
The Patna University Act 1917—a Retrospect
22-27 Kameshwar Sinha view
History of the Patna University
27-56 Biman Majumder view
Some Reminiscences of the Patna University
57-63 Debendra Sen view
Sketches of Institutions Affiliated to the Patna University
64-223 S.R. Prasad view
List of Places in Patna Worth Visiting
224-224 Biman Majumder view

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