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Show 8 the fact that for the most part the papermalers are illiterate. This conditio exist in China, but not 1o the same extent as in India. In China, whil um are many dialects, there is but one method of w ing or printing th word; in India there are many different flplmbm and many disAim:l lan;,uagcs, all contributing to make intercourse difficult us glad to leave the railway carriage, as the uncomfortable journcy throug the sandy, barren country of central India had been fatiguing. After trave in the magnificent Vale of Kashmir, all the rest of India looked dull an drab, entirely lacking in beauty. The station in Wardha did not in an ay suggest that this village was the most famous in all India, the seat o Mahatma Gandhi's activi we drove to the location of th Aesocmuon buildings, a little o bazaar, or market place the locality being known as Maganvadi. We had a letter of introductio toMr. j. o Kumarappa, author of the book, Wiy the Village Movement? an 8 Columbia University. He was glad to go with us across the roadway to th school of papermaking, established by Gandhi not only as a centre fo instruction, but also as a recognized agency supplying information o an papermaking district in India. Photographs 59-60. At the school, a smal thatched building, we met Mr. , the chief teacher and himSnglish" on the craft of fmmlm; sheets o paper by the ancient hand process. Mr e, a us you ‘man, was doing his best to teach the eight or ten pupils. He md comn'uctc a small beater, photographs 61-62, of the "Hollander" type, m anllustration which he h«d found in an old English book on papu'rnak og The Wardha beater cons blong cement tub about five fect i 19 andide Paper by S.B. Kbodic, Published Warda, Printe in Sudikar Press by the AllTn e it s gl oS Digital image © 2005 MarriottLibrary Universit of Utah, All rihts reserved |