INDIA PROBLEM FORUM TOPIC

India, the Allies' biggest headache at this time last year, is to be the topic of discussion at a meeting of the Harvard Council on Post-War Problems, in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, tonight at 7:45 o'clock.

The speakers will include T. A. Raman, one of India's best known journalists, Walter E. Clark, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, E. Merrick Dodds, professor of Law, and Thomas Jahkub, president of the Indian League of Boston.

Raman of Indian Ancestry

Raman is one of the best authorities on Indian politics in the United States today. Born into an old Hindu Brahmin family of Madras and educated in both India and England, he joined Gandhi's staff at the Round Table Conferences in 1930.

As the London editor of the United Press of India in 1940 he came into personal contact with British Cabinet members, and at the same time maintained close association with Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian leaders. In March 1941, he made a visit to India, conferring with the most important persons in the country.

Professor Clark is the only member of the Indic Philology Department, and one of the greatest authorities in America on Indian culture and history. In addition, he is one of the few English-speaking men in the world who can talk Sanskrit.

Sparks to Fly

Professor Dodd, an expert on recent Indian politics, visited India within the last few years, and acquainted himself with the leading men in India. Jahkub, an extreme advocate of Free India Now, comes from the same part of India as Raman, and is well acquainted with him, but the two take diametrically opposite viewpoints regarding Britain's attitude toward India.

Sparks ought to fly when the ideas of these men meet, one defending the British viewpoint, the other calling for immediate liberation of India.