November 26, 1933

Registration of Bombay Assembly

The Guardian was greatly pleased to read the minutes of the last meeting
of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of India and Burma and
he wishes me to express his genuine appreciation of the important steps
which your Assembly has taken for the further extension and consolidation
of the administrative institutions of the Faith in that country. He would
be very grateful if you send him regularly the minutes of the meetings of
the N.S.A. and he would be only too glad to offer any suggestion or advice
which may help its members to better discharge their manifold and delicate
functions. He sincerely hopes that your Assembly will meet as regularly
and as frequently as possible in order to maintain the efficiency of its
functioning and to raise the standard and to widen the scope of its
activities.

The important decision of the N.S.A. relative to the registration of the
Bombay Assembly as a recognized religious body is, in the Guardian's
opinion, a leading step towards the official recognition of the Cause as
an independent religious organisation by the Government authorities both
in India and Burma. He would strongly urge, however, that the constitution
to be adopted should not only be based on that which the New York Assembly
has adopted for its own registration but should reproduce it identically
without any change whatsoever but with due consideration to all local and
geographical differences.

The Guardian wishes also to stress the necessity of completing the Urdu
and the Hindi translations of Dr. Esslemont's 'New Era'. He has already,
in several communications addressed to Mr. N.R. Vakil, requested him to
take all the necessary steps in this direction. May the decision of the
N.S.A. on this point hasten and insure the completion of this task to
which the Guardian has so repeatedly drawn the attention of the friends.

December 27, 1933

Bedrock of Baha'i Administrative Order

The Guardian was very pleased to learn of the progress done by the Indian
N.S.A. in its efforts to consolidate, widen and maintain the scope of its
national activities. The difficulties in your way are tremendous. The
differences of language and of social and intellectual background do,
undoubtedly, render the work somewhat difficult to carry out and may
temporarily check the efficient and smooth working of the national
administrative machinery of the Faith. Th