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The Asiatic Review April 1944

1944

In the main it is limited to Bengal on the north-cast of India to the States of Travancore and Cochin on the south-West -of India; and to certain portions of the Madras )'residency. [...] There are three rice crops in the year and as one watches the cultivator just before the oncome of the heavy rains transplanting his seedlings into the mud ready for the onrush of the waters it is impossible not to think of that Biblical description of " casting your bread upon the waters that it may return to you after many days." Bengal then is a land of rice and it must be obvious that in [...] The collector may or may not apply his own mind to the problem but in any case back will go a solemn letter to the Provincial Government : " I have the honour to state that the estimated crop for the year is so much." Having been a collector myself I would not care to go to the stake in the defence of the accuracy of these figures and there is fairly general agrement that India in the fut [...] The rise of prices still further strengthened the tendency of the cultivator to hold on to his grain; it was not necessary for him to sell so much in"I24 The Indian Food Scarcity: Its Causes and Lessons order to pay his rent or his land revenue or his debts to the money-lender and at the same time the belief that the rising trend of prices would continue encouraged him to hold on in the hope of d [...] We see then that four separate factors contributed to the 1943 position : firstly the cutting off of imports from Burma and the reduction of imports from Australia; secondly the psychological factor which made the cultivator hold on to his grain; thirdly the activities of the speculator and the householder; and finally the terrible natural calamity of October 1942.
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Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
The Indian Food Scarcity: Its Causes and Lessons
121-131 P.J. Riffiths view
India’s Part in South-East Asia
132-136 unknown view
Indian Constitutional Changes
136-146 Lord Erskine view
The Untouchables on the Move
146-157 R.R. Bhole view
The Hot Springs Resolutions: Their Relation to Indian Agriculture
157-162 John Russell view
The War Effort of Mysore
162-166 unknown view
A Planned Economy for India
166-171 R.W. Brock view
Asia on the Air: A Radio Review
171-173 Winifred Holmes view
Linguistic Reform and Historical Research in the New Turkey
173-176 Bay Baba view
War-Time Turkey Builds for Peace
177-179 Alexander Henderson view
Stray Thoughts about Persia
180-185 H.D. Law view
Persian Jones
186-196 A.J. Arberry view
The Past and the Future
196-201 unknown view
The Pan-Arab Movement
202-204 Kenneth Williams view
The Chinese Mission to Great Britain
205-207 Bernard Floud view
Malaya: A Vindication
207-209 Victor Purcell view
How the Army in the Netherlands Indies Resisted Japanese Invasion
209-214 unknown view
Some Suggested Relations between Eastern and Western Culture
215-226 Terence White view
Some Observations on the Development of Science in China
226-229 P.M. Yap view
Reviews of Books
230-232 unknown view