In an fascinating deal with on “The Place of Geology in the Life of a Nation,” Dr. L. L. Fermor, President of the 20 th session of the Indian Science Congress now being held at Patna, factors out how nice geological adjustments have affected the historical past of India.

He factors out that there are sound geological the reason why Delhi needs to be the political capital of India and Calcutta its industrial capital, whereas the foundations of Bombay’s significance had been laid as long as 75 million years in the past.

Today the session of the Indian Science Congress was occupied with sectional conferences. Lt. Col, Stewart, Director, All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, addressed the Medical and Veterinary Research part, Dr. A. L. Narayan, the Mathematics and Physics part and Dr. 8 L. Ghose, Botanical part. The delegates later visited the Oriental Knudabux Library, the Manuk Art Collections, the Patna Museum and the Sinha Library.

A particular characteristic of the congress is the exhibition of scientific devices and chemical manufactures.

DELHI AS CAPITAL

Most Strategic Point in India

Dr. Fermor dwelt in his paper on Geological developments and their results on historical past. He cited the instance of India and talked about the geological “ causes for the evolution of Delhi into the capital of the nation.

In the primary place we could confer with the place of the capital. There is little doubt that the defence of any nation is one in all prime significance, and that, due to this fact, the place of biggest inner strategic significance could have claims for choice because the capital of the nation. A look at this map will present you that Delhi, by advantage of its place on the apes of the Peninsula, occupies essentially the most strategic level in India, close to the inner peace of the nation. For Delhi is on the level the place the plains of the Indo-Gangetic alluvium that separate the Peninsula from the Himalaya grow to be most Constricted, the purpose consequently at which it’s best to defend the fertile plains of the Yamuna and the Ganges to menace towards invasion of the west the path from which many of the main exterior invasions of the previous have come. It isn’t a surprise due to this fact, that previously historical past of India there have been three decisive battles at Panipat within the plains north of Delhi. It is that this place on the apex of the Peninsula that brought about Delhi to be the capital dwelling of the Moghal Emperors and their predecessor, and which actually brought about the elimination of the capital of India in current instances from Calcutta to Delhi.

Commercial Capital

But the welfare of a rustic doesn’t rely solely upon the delta of Bengal, by its reference to the Hinterland of the Gangetic valley and the excessive. lands of Assam, its sea connection to Burma and Southern India, and its proximity to the coal-fields of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, appears to be a pure website for a industrial and industrial capital; it’s due to the existence of those underlying pure components that Calcutta continues to be the industrial capital of India, despite the elimination of the political capital to Delhi.

The final components which have brought about the choice of Delhi a the political capital of the Indian Empire with the de facto retention of Calcutta because the industrial capital date again to the sequence of occasions that brought about the break-up of Gondwanaland, adopted by the elevation of the Himalayas and the deposit of the alluvium of the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra.