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...even looks somewhat like Gandhi, except for a grey beard and frowsy dark hair. He has the same emaciated body, wears the same sort of bifocal glasses, speaks in the same calm, soft voice, with kindly humor. One of the most learned men in India, he has studied Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Kanarese, Malayalam and English, and this array of languages serves him well on his travels through polyglot India. It is not for his learning, however, that India's millions have given their hearts to Vinoba Bhave. They have done that because he, like...
...Bhave was shipped off to study at Bombay, but went instead to Bengal. Apparently (he is reticent about his early life) he joined the nationalist movement in Bengal, eating at public kitchens. He studied Sanskrit at Benares, and became deeply immersed in Hindu theology. He first saw Gandhi in 1916. Being too shy to approach the Mahatma, Bhave wrote a letter instead, and Gandhi invited him to join the ashram at Sabarmati. When Gandhi learned that his new follower had not written to his family for several years, he sat down himself and wrote to Bhave's father: "Your...
Return Before Nightfall. Bhave was restless at Sabarmati, however, and went away to study more Sanskrit, telling Gandhi that if he did not find peace of soul he would be back in a year. Over the ensuing months, the others in the ashram forgot his promise, but one morning at prayers, the Mahatma said that this was the day Vinoba had promised to return. Vinoba was back before nightfall...
...four other professors are: I. Bernard Cohen '37, appointed associate professor of General Education and of the History of Science, Richard N. Frye, appointed associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36, appointed associate professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, and Horace G. Lunt II '41, appointed associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
Concentrators must take at least three courses in Sanskrit, one in Indian Studies, and two in related fields. Candidates for honors have only one additional task, an oral examination on the field, taken in the second half of the senior year...