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The Wealth of India

1925

If the East thought more of the things of the spirit and of the life beyond in the past it was because the valleys of the Ganges and the Indus of the Euphrates and the Tigris were extraordinarily fertile and made the necessaries and comforts of life easily available to the people. [...] The complexity of the factors that determine the strength and distribution of the current makes it difficult to secure evenness and uniformity of behaviour on the part of the current with the result that there is scarcely a year in which some part of the vast continent does not suffer from failure of harvest. [...] The country is rich in fisheries whose vast potentialities have not yet been realised.22 THE WEALTH OF INDIA CHAP THE ENVIRONMENT MODIFIED BY MAN The material welfare of society depends not only on the gifts of nature but on the utilisation of these gifts uy men on the transformation of unfavourable surroundings and conditions into the conditions of a good life. [...] The variety of gauges the adotion of differentiating rates which favour the foreign exporter at the cost of even and rapid internal distribution the lack of uniformity and co-ordination are the most salient amongst the defects of railway administration in India. [...] The results of their observations are to be made the basis of expert advice as to the best mode of utilising those natural resources in the interests of the English trade.""it THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT 27 B. Climate Fro-m an economic point of view the unfavourable effects of adverse climatic conditions can be counteracted or at any rate modified by the preservation and planttion of forests and
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Pages
449
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146861
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xi P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter I Introductory
1-14 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter II the Physical Environment
15-36 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter III Population
37-59 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter IV Population
60-77 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter IV Population
78-90 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter VI the Income of British India
91-117 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter VII Social Institutions and Economic Life
118-139 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter VIII Social Institutions and Economic Life
140-162 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter IX Psychology and Economics
163-186 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter X Production
187-195 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XI Agriculture
196-227 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XII Low Agricultural Production
228-235 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XIII Subdivision and Fragmentation of Holdings
236-259 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XIV Tillage and Technique
260-277 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XV Agricultural Indebtedness
278-295 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XVI Agricultural Indebtedness
296-311 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XVII Agricultural Organisation
312-321 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XVIII Indian Industries
322-347 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XIX Factory Labour
348-383 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XX Industrial Capital
384-397 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XXI Business Enterprise
398-404 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Chapter XXII Cottage Industries
405-417 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Conclusion
418-420 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
Index of Authors Cited
421-424 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view
General Index
425-438 P.A. Wadia, G.N. Joshi view

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