in her soil, and in the products she can raise there- 

 from ; that in her soil lies a capital, the judicious 

 employment of which should make her the richest 

 country in the world ; it should raise her ryots 

 to the position of well-to-do farmers, instead of 

 being, as at present, the poorest and most ignorant 

 of the population. Attention will be drawn further 

 on to the small outturn of the fields of India as 

 compared with that of well-nursed and properly 

 tended soils of other countries, which, though not 

 enjoying the advantages of a tropical climate, yield 

 more than double the average of India. It will be 

 shown that the outturn of the rice -fields of India 

 must originally have been much larger, and that we 

 have to seek the causes which have reduced it to its 

 present low level in the reckless style of Indian 

 cultivation. 



The riches and resources of India lie buried in 

 her soil, and it is only by developing these resources, 

 these riches, that we can permanently improve the 

 country. Government has laid down hundreds 

 of miles of railway ; it is sowing an education broad- 

 cast among the masses, which only tends to fill its 

 offices with underpaid officials ; but the true deve- 

 lopment of the natural wealth of this vast country 

 with an essentially agricultural population has hither- 

 to hardly been attempted. Indeed, the efforts which 

 Government has made to improve Indian Agricul- 

 ture have been few and far between, and it must also 



