vi PREFACE 



phenomena of an Indian province as one whole. 

 Many interesting studies of particular industrial 

 problems may be found scattered about the official 

 literature of the Government of India, but these are 

 usually incidental to the consideration of a technical 

 question, and cannot, in the form in which they were 

 published, be placed in the hands of students. As far 

 as I know, no attempt has yet been made to examine 

 Indian industry from the point of view of the 

 economist. 



I have thought that this book might prove interest- 

 ing to some European readers who desire to study 

 the industrial organization of India for the purpose of 

 comparative economics. In view of the possibility of 

 having a few such readers, I have added some explana- 

 tions which are superfluous to Indian students. 

 European readers, on the other hand, will find some 

 facts regarding European industry set forth with a 

 detail which is unnecessary for them. Thus the book 

 has, I fear, suffered from the attempt to address two 

 different classes of readers at the same time. 



It was my wish to have dated this book from the 

 Aligarh College, in the prosperity of which I have 

 been so deeply interested for the last seventeen years ; 

 but the duties of a member of the staff in a residential 

 college left me little time for private work, and there- 

 fore, although I continued to collect material as long 

 as I was in India, I was not able to put it together 

 until I reached England. 



THEODORE MORISON. 



ashleigh, 

 Weybridge. 



