MOOKERJI, RADHAKUMUD. Local government in ancient India; with a foreword by the Marquess of Crewe. (Mysore univ. studies) *$5.65 Oxford 352
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“As Dr Mookerji points out, the subject of local government in ancient India has both an historical and a practical interest. Dr Mookerji’s survey is limited by the inscriptions of southern India, which from the tenth to the fifteenth century are the most fruitful of all sources of information. The systems of self-government, which communities, bound together by birth, profession, or locality, evolved for their own protection and for the promotion of a common welfare, were founded on the model of the family; and they have formed a strong social framework which has resisted for ages the shock of political changes. Dr Mookerji contrasts the Indian guilds and corporations, which he regards as ‘practically sui generis’ with the various institutions which are now comprehensively included under the term ‘local government’ in the United Kingdom and other countries of modern Europe.”—Eng Hist R
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“Many students of Indian history may be unable to accept some of Dr Mookerji’s conclusions; but all will feel grateful to him for the real service which he has rendered to scholarship by collecting together and arranging in a convenient form the widely scattered evidence for the early history of local government in India.” E. J. Rapson
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MOORE, ANNIE CARROLL. Roads to childhood. *$1.50 Doran 028.5
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Papers on children’s reading by the supervisor of work with children in the New York public library, in part reprinted from the Bookman. Contents: Roads to childhood; Writing for children; A Christmas book exhibit; Viewing and reviewing books for children; Holiday books; Children under ten and their books; Two lists of books for children; A spring review of children’s books; Books for young people; Vacation reading. An index lists authors, titles and illustrations mentioned in the text.