Service
At the age of 24, he was appointed a librarian of Darbhanga state by its Maharaja. In 1902, he was appointed a Professor of Sanskrit at Muir College in Prayag, which he left in 1918 to become the first Indian principal of the Government Sanskrit College in Benares. Between 1920-1923 he served as a member of the Council of State in the Central British Government of India.
He was vice-chancellor of University of Allahabad (Prayag University) during 1923-32. University of Allahabad established the Ganganath Jha Hostel in his honor.
Read more about this topic: Ganganath Jha
Famous quotes containing the word service:
“In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as well as her own.”
—Anita Loos (1888–1981)
“We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.”
—Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)
“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)