The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday August 13th 1878

as Assistant Quarter-Master-General of the Bombay Army and subsequently held the post of Brigadier General of the Bombay district We understand that the Secretary of State has approved the sanction given by the Government of India to the extension of the Oudb and Rohilkund Railway from its present terminus in the Cantonment at Senores to the Bank of the Gauges at.Bajiliai a distance of about p [...] It is impossible we think to account for the high rates everywhere ruling except by the effect on the markets of the country of the deteriorated value of the rupee in exchange. [...] How is it that this great change has come about in the relative values of the coarser and finer grains so that the more valuable of the two has become not comparatively but positively cheaper out of all proportion than the common grains of the country ? It is easy of course to point out that the direct and obvious cause is the all but total failure of last year's klawrreef of which bake; and [...] The failure of the seasons the sudden development of the export trade in grain and the heavy fall in silver are the three great causes of the terrible distress which the masses of the people are everywhere enduring. [...] THE beet part of the Introduction to our thinking is the account of the caste system and the estimate which follows it of the popular character.