The Moral Vision
The Learner-Teacher
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doing so was to bring him into contact with the
widest possible range of young people in order that
he might the more effectively pursue his mission. It
was essential that he should have a permanent base
from which to work, and this kind of teaching
assignment was ideal in that it gave him the
opportunity to function both intra—and extra—
murally.
So intent was be upon carrying out his mission that
he did not once baulk at the enormity of the task
that lay ahead. It meant learning the history of a
whole subcontinent—and one, too, which dated
back to the most ancient of times, and into which
were interwoven the histories of many peoples. The
complexity of the task was intensified by the lack of
documentary evidence for certain important
periods of Indian history and the fact that much had
to be pieced together on the basis of archeological
discoveries. But he set about his task with such
thoroughness and determination that he became not
only an accomplished teacher of history, but a
historian of repute of the same class as Sir Jadunath
Sarkar and Dr. Surendra Nath Sen. He died in 1956,
but his work is still commemorated by an institute
