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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record. July 1902

1902

The 'Faminet Commission of 1898 wrote : To put the food-supply of the country in circulation was necessarily the first object of a wise famine p')licy to protect and develop the supply itself should be its second object.; and this is the function ofagricultural development generally and of irrgation in particular." But then came the unprecedented prolongation of the drought and the Famine [...] The latter is the year of drought of the clear sky and the continuos blazing sushine when the desiccated atmosphere speaks not of the damp malaraous exhalationr when the hard baked land has no memory of the swamp and the morass. [...] But owing to the height of the land along the edge of the valley of the Ganges this scheme itself presented the difficulty of an enormous depth of digging over a veryionlength. [...] There are large tracts where the conditions are favourable the lie of the land the character of the soil of the rainfall—it makes all the difference whether the reservoir is filled once in the year or oftener—other tracts where they are not. [...] For the lands of every village the village is the labour-centre the manure-centre the water-centre ; there is the tank the best wells.
government politics public policy
Pages
235
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
The Famine Commissions
1-30 R. E. Forrest view
Value of Water in India
31-47 J. F. Fischer view
Agricultural Banks or Co-Operative Credit in India
48-60 C. W. Whish view
Education by Newspaper
61-75 S. S. Thorburn view
Gauriashankar of Bhavnagar an Indian Minister
76-85 John Jardine view
Pacific Pictures and Problems
86-100 A. Michie view
The British Colonies: the Sugar Question
101-109 R. G. Corbet view
Quarterly Report on Semitic Studies and Orientalism
110-113 Edward Montet view
Buddhism and Art
114-120 R. G. Corbet view
Sir Richard Temple
121-130 unknown view
The Ephthalite Turks
131-159 E. H. Parker view
Proceedings of the East India Association
160-191 unknown view
Correspondence Notes and News
192-203 unknown view
Reviews and Notices
204-221 unknown view
Our Library Table
221-225 unknown view
Summary of Events
226-232 unknown view