Journal of the Gujarat Research Society January 1945

The progress of work in connection with the volumes on the History of Gujarat is however slow partly because of the difficulty of finding trained research workers and partly on account of the other preoccupations of some of the senior members. [...] According to Binet the three important abilities constituting intelligence were : (1) the comprehending of a problem directing the mind to the solution and maintaining the attention to it ; (2) the ability to adapt the mind to the needs of the situation and (3) the capacity for auto-criticism. [...] The parents of the boy first visit the parents of the girl. [...] Then the hems of the garments of the brides and the bridegroom are tied into a knot by the latter. [...] The pall bearers then turn the head of the corpse to the south and carry it to the cremation ground.