CHAPTEK III. 



INDICATIONS OF PROGRESS IN WESTERN INDIA. 



In the previous chapter an account has been given of 

 striking agricultural progress secured elsewhere by 

 various measures, and statistics have been quoted 

 showing that in many cases the agricultural produce 

 has been doubled, and particular lines of a profitable 

 nature developed on a very large scale. It now 

 remains for us to consider what movement of this 

 kind has taken place in western India ; and it is dis- 

 appointing to have to record at the outset that no 

 general or striking progress, comparable with that 

 noted in various cases in the last chapter, has 

 occurred. Even in matters with regard to which 

 progress can be claimed, the statistics do not enable 

 us to state that the outturn of any particular crop, 

 per acre, has increased by a definite percentage. 



To take first the question of statistical information, 

 it has already been stated in Chapter I. that the 

 difficulty in securing accurate information of the 

 trend of crop outturns lies partly in the circumstance 

 of small peasant farming, where the peasants keep 



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