Problems of Rural India Being collection of Addresses Delivered on Various Occasions in India and in England

The Author advocated in some of these lectures the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate the condtions in which the great majority of the peoples of British India fight against the ever-prevalent famine and the ever-present scarcity. [...] Russell the present Director of the famous Rothamstead Experiment Station England puts it " the judgment of the man on the spot has usually to be final and the more clearly he has the facts before him the sounder the judgment is likely to be." The first step then towards helping farmers to understand the exact needs and potentialities of the land under cultivation is to"PROBLEM OF INCREASED [...] The problem does no longer concern only the farmer but it is perhaps one of the most pressing economic problems that are sure to dominate politcal affairs of the country." II THE NEED FOR THE STUDY OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS IN INDIA.* [A.meeting of the staff and the students of the American College at Madura was held on Wednesday February 19 1919 at the College Hall at which the following [...] Since the opening of the markets of the world newNEED FOR THE STUDY OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 17 economic factors have begun to dominate even the daily life of every tiller of the soil. [...] The elevation of the depressed classes who have to be brought up to the level of the rest of our people universal elementary education co-operation improvment of the economic condition of the peasantry higher education of women spread of industrial and technical education building up the industrial strength promotion of closer relations between the different communities—these are some o