92 CEREALS 



And I do not know that there is any more striking 

 contrast between the two countries than that presented 

 by the genial, friendly Burman, on the one hand, plying 

 his business with little official aid beyond that afforded 

 by the pax Britannica, and, on the other hand, the sour 

 ungraciousness with which many of the peoples of Upper 

 India seem to enter into ownership of the new world 

 that irrigation has created for them. The fact is that 

 they do not understand. They are immigrants. They 

 have left their traditions behind them, and are " on the 

 make." They did not know the country as it was, and 

 they do not really conceive the wealth of crops to be a 

 gift of their rulers. That, of course, is perhaps the most 

 tiresome part of an official's life in India, that the good 

 folk who profit by his effort very often remain uncon- 

 scious even of the very fact that it has been made. 



