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Afforestation, 65, 67, 71, 72 



Agriculture, percentage of population engaged in, 39 

 poor crops, 40, 41 

 three crops in one year, 15 

 yield per acre of crops, 78-85, 104-107 



Area of India and area of forests, 55, 62 



Artificial manures, phosphates, potash, nitrates, annual cost, 88, 



148-156 

 See also Kenny, Davis, Pusa, Madras 



Ashburner, C.S.I., yield of crops, one-quarter proper yield, 86 



Ashford, John, 171-174 



Author's travel in India, 22 



Bartle Frere, waste of manure, reckless forest cutting, 86 

 British rule, benefits and drawbacks, 32, 33, 34 



Capabilities of the people, 18 



Caste, 31, 32 



Cattle food is the people's food, 144, 145, 146 



increase, 50 per cent., 101 

 Chemical laboratories for soil analysis, 91 

 Cholera, 120 

 Climate, 13, 14, 18 

 Coal, 54, 58, 59, 60, no, in, 177 



Commons, Members of British House of, to visit India, 27 

 Cowdung burnt, 50, 51, 52, 53, 59 

 Crops in time of Moguls, 42, 43 



yield per acre and total yield, 40, 41, 78-84, 104-107 



Damage caused by destruction of forests, 67-70 

 Davis, exhausted grain land requires phosphates, 84, 85 



indigo land requires phosphates, 84 

 Digby, William, showing poverty of the people, 21, 22, 44-47 



people's income one halfpenny per head per 

 day, 44 



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