Report of the Calendar Reform Committee, Government of India (Part C)
Report of the Calendar Reform Committee, Government of India (Part C) — what it is, what it added, and what we retired from it.
Report of the Calendar Reform Committee, Government of India (Part C) — M. N. Saha and N. C. Lahiri.
Edition consulted: CSIR, first published 1955, reprinted 1992.
What kind of text this is
Official state publication; stable.
What it contributed
greek-transmission — refinement. A Government of India committee states horoscopy was introduced in the 1st c. AD and Siddhantic astronomy blends Indian and Western conceptions from the 3rd c. BC.
The most citable transmission source in the corpus - official, modern, and by the body that produced Lahiri ayanamsa.
science-vs-convention — novel. ‘SCIENCE which nobody is permitted to violate’ versus ‘CONVENTIONS which are man-made’.
Our three-layer method, stated in 1955 by people with the authority to act on it.
practice-drifted-from-its-own-text — novel. Almanac-makers used the sidereal year where the tropical is required - contrary to the Surya-Siddhanta they cite.
Shows practice drifting from its own authority, which is a different failure from the text being wrong.
Reading the text yourself
We quote and cite; we do not republish. Most translations in this corpus are in copyright, and the public-domain ones are better served by the Internet Archive than by a copy here. Citations give chapter and verse so any claim can be checked against your own edition.