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tion that they may eventually hecoine the pillais of 

 that noble structure. This has undouhtedly liitherto 

 been the ahn of the Imperial Government, the same 

 jainciple has guided each of mjr officials in his re- 

 spective post, from hiii;h to low, and there is now every 

 promise of complete success. Already native judges 

 pi-eside at some of our courts in India, and before 

 long we shall find the same element represented 

 in all branches of Govei-nment and private enter- 

 prise. 



The agricultural progress of the country, within the 

 last twenty-five years, lias been enormous, and many able 

 writers having fully discussed and fairly threshed out 

 the subject, I do not intend wearying my readers by 

 expounding my own views. As regards the Ryot, 

 a very important personage in a purely agiicultural 

 country, I feel fully convinced that the " village 

 system " is the most suitable for India at all times, 

 and more especially so in bad times, and when visited 

 l^y the curse of famine. The high death rate during 

 the latter, which decimated Mysore in 1877, was no 

 doubt owing to the neglect and total disorganization 

 of that system, which had been handed down from 

 father to son for generations past, and which the Kyot 

 clings to with a sort of religious eagerness, feeling safe 

 and content under it. 



