PROSPECTUS 



OF 



THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 

 INSTITUTE AND COLLEGE, PUSA 



{The Prospectus is subject to sncJi alterations as may 

 fro^n time to time he ordered.) 



I. PREFATORY. 



'T^HE Agricultural Research Institute and College, Pusa, owes its 

 -*■ inception to the generosity of Mr. Henry Phipps who in 1903 placed 

 at the disposal of Lord Curzon, then Viceroy and Governor General of 

 India, a donation of £20,000 ^which he afterwards raised to £30 000) 

 with the request that it might be devoted, to some object of public utility 

 in India, preferably in the direction of scientific research. Part of this 

 donation was devoted to the construction of a Pasteur institute at Coon- 

 oor in southern India, and it was decided that the balance should be 

 utilized in erecting a laboratory of agricultural research which, it was 

 hoped, would form a centre of economic science in connection with that 

 occupation on which the people of India mainly depend. This conception 

 was subsequently enlarged, and the Government of India have now con- 

 structed a college and research institute to which a farm of some 

 1,300 acres is attached for purposes of experimental cultivation and de- 

 monstration. 



In 1903, when the research station was sanctioned, it was intended 

 to combine it with a college which should give a general agricultural educa- 

 tion and should serve as a model for the few agricultural colleges and 

 schools of very unequal merit which then existed in India. Recently, 

 however, this conception of the functions of the Pusa College has under, 

 gone a material change. It is now recognised that the first and most 

 essential condition of any permanent improvement in the agricultural 

 methods of this country is the widest possible diffusion of an organised 

 knowledge of scientific and practical agriculture, and at the same time 

 it is desired to make the country as far as possible self-supporting in the 



