Indian Famines: Their Causes and Remedies |
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Page 3 - Indians which contribute to prevent the occurrence of famine among them ; for whereas among other nations it is usual, in the contests of war, to ravage the soil, and thus to reduce it to an uncultivated waste, among the Indians, on the contrary, by whom husbandmen are regarded as a class that is sacred and inviolable, the tillers of the soil, even when battle is raging in their neighbourhood, are undisturbed by any sense of danger...
Page 15 - But, to take the ordinary acts of husbandry, nowhere would one find better instances of keeping land scrupulously clean from weeds, of ingenuity in device of water-raising appliances, of knowledge of soils and their capabilities, as well as...
Page 22 - The result is, that a country which makes regular payments to foreign countries, besides losing what it pays, loses also something more, by the less advantageous terms on which it is forced to exchange its productions for foreign commodities.
Page 23 - But the case is wholly different when the taxes are not spent in the country from which they are raised. . . . They constitute .... an absolute loss and extinction of the whole amount withdrawn from the taxed country .... might as well be thrown into the sea.
Page 23 - The result to the interests of the two countries will be as already pointed out: the paying country will give a higher price for all that it buys from the receiving country, while the latter, besides receiving the tribute, obtains the exportable produce of the tributary country at a lower price.
Page 22 - The annual drain of £ 3,000,000 on British India has amounted in 30 years at 12 per cent (the usual Indian rate) compound interest to the enormous sum of £ 723,900,000 sterling.
Page 6 - Life was offered for a loaf,* but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked about only in search of sustenance.
Page 3 - Being, moreover, exempted from fighting and other public services, they devote the whole of their time to tillage; nor would an enemy coming upon a husbandman at work on his land do him any harm, for men of this class, being regarded as public benefactors, are protected from all injury.
Page 23 - From this explanation some faint conception may be formed of the cruel, crushing effect of the tribute upon India...