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“ It is true that the final court of appeal is the Senate, but while the number of teachers in a subject forming the Board of Higher Studies in that subject possess the advantage of being the initiators of a proposal and seconding it again in the Post-Graduate Council, the condemners can speak only once and the double proposal and advocacy with the single condemnation goes before the final court of appeal, which, as a rule, is impressed by the support given by the Post-Graduate Council in Arts to a proposal initiated by the Board of Higher Studies. ”

“ Therefore the selection of examiners both internal and external in a particular subject is vested solely in the teachers of that subject with a loose control by the Executive Committee consisting of an absolute majority of paid servants of the University. The result is already apparent. The external examiners appointed are generally such men as dare not or care not to protest against the present system of sham or dishonesty in teaching work and in research at Calcutta as revealed in the answer papers. ”

“ Thus the lecturer in Fine Arts and Iconography—Archaeology—Group B does not possess any idea of the history of ancient schools of sculptures and the lecturer in Numismatics (Archaeology, Group A, Paper IV) fails to read an uncommon and rare ancient Indian coin. People of this type therefore prefer to fix the standards of examinations in such a way that students are able to answer the question from their lecture-notes only. ”

“ Thus if it said that a particular work was original then it at once received the stamp of very original research work, though outsiders, specially scholars who have come to be recognised as authorities on that subject, declared such works to be mere copies or even fraudulent efforts to produce real research. ”

“ People who have already made their mark in life in special subjects like Paleography, Numismatics, History of Sanskrit Literature, both in India and in Europe, are carefully ignored when external examiners are selected or text-books recommended. How many times have the Board of Higher Studies selected men of the type of Dr. ”

“ The plea has been advanced more than once that it is necessary to have a larger number of lecturers in the Post-Graduate departments than is ordinarily necessary for the purpose of Post-Graduate teaching, in order to allow the members sufficient time to be devoted to research work. ”