Administrative Problems of British India

The distribution of the rainfall in India is largely influenced by the direction of the wind currents known as the monsoons and by the height and situation of the mountain ranges. [...] You regret the forest that has been gnawed by the goat or devastated by the woodman ; rather rejoice in the triumph of civilisation in that wheat will shortly grow on what had been a tiger's lair." To the tiger add the panther the leopard the hyena the wolf the snake and the elephant and you will have the bulk of the army of wild beasts which"18 PROBLEMS OF BRITISH INDIA BOO threaten men an [...] The great deeds and adventures of the Homeric heroes the loves and rivalries of the Olympian gods the beauties of the Acropolis and the Parthenon and the fame of their sublime artists—all this is already in us and rises to flood our mind with enthusiasm and to increase tenfold the charm and the beauty of a pigrimage to the cities of Priam Apollo or Pericles. [...] New India again includes all those hill-stations where the Governments of India and of the provinces take refuge against the summer heat escorted by their departmental officers and clerks and bringing in their train the indigenous aristocracy of the north of India and the idle and snobbish of all races who desire to approach the great ones of the earth. [...] The general rule is that every census shows an augmentation of population caused by the large number of marriages ; the fecundity of the race ; the absence of Malthusian practices ; and the progressive development of the country—due to the naturvl fertility of the land as in the Ganges valley ; to irrigation as in the United Provinces and in the Punjab ; to the introduction or development of sp