OF THE BIHAR AND ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIETY For the year 1917. Patron. His Honour Sir Edward Albert Gait, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S. The Hon'ble Sir Edward Vere Levinge, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., I.C.S. The Hon'ble Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent, Kt., I.C.S. The Hon'ble Maharaja Bahadur Sir Rameswar Singh, G.C.I.E., of Darbhanga. The Hon'ble Maharaja Bahadur Sir Ravaneswar Prasad Singh, K.C.I.E, of Gidhaur. Maharaja Bir Mitradaya Singh Deo of Sonepur State. President. His Honour Sir Edward Albert Gait, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S. Secretaries for History Section-K. P. Jayaswal, Esq., M.A., Bar.-atLaw, and Professor J. N. Samaddar, B.A. Secretary for Archæology and Numismatics-D. B. Spooner, Esq., B.A., Ph.D. Secretary for Anthropology and Folk-lore-Babu S. C. Roy, M.A., B.L. Secretaries for Philology-Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Hara Prasad Shastri, M.A., C.I.E., and Nawab Shams-ul-'Ulama Saiyid Imdad Imam. (Continued on page 3 of cover,) 863451 ASTOR, LE JOURNAL OF THE BIHAR AND ORISSA VOL. IIL] [PART I. The Annual Presidential Address. By His Honour Sir Edward Gait, K.C.S.I., C.I.E. GENTLEMEN, Our Society has now completed the second year of its existence and I think we may congratulate ourselves on the results which have been attained and the steady progress which has been made in various directions. The number of members has risen during the year from 237 to 319, which I think you will agree is good progress in a province like ours, where education is still backward and there are comparatively few persons capable of taking an intelligent interest in the subjects with which our Society deals. I hope that the year on which we are now entering will show a further large accession of members. Our Journal has appeared regularly. We have had no dearth of contributions and the quality of the papers accepted for publication has been favourably noticed, here and in England, both. in the Press and by well-known Anthropologists and Orientalists. At the last annual meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society the inauguration of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society received special mention, and a synopsis of the contents of our Journal |