CHAPTER IV. 



THE MANAGER. 



THE Manager is appointed by the proprietor or 

 joint proprietors of the concern i.e., the head 

 factory with all its outworks under a general 

 power-of-attorney of the fullest nature, to superin- 

 tend and have a care over all and every interest 

 in the said concern. In proportion as his power 

 is full, so is his responsibility heavy. The efficient 

 management of a large, or indeed of any, indigo 

 concern, far from being a sinecure, is attended with 

 many difficulties, and demands the exercise of an 

 amount of judgment and sagacity not perhaps 

 required in any other profession in India. The 

 Manager has virtually to be a "jack of all trades," 

 whilst the comparative mastery which he has 

 attained over most of them is to be admired. His 

 duties are multiform, and his labour unceasing. 

 The routine of his work is everlasting. To him 

 the treadmill is indeed a daily round, but it is the 

 mental as well as the physical one ; a well-balanced 

 mind is equally necessary with a robust frame and 

 sturdy limbs : mens sand in corpore sano is an indis- 

 pensable requisite in the good Manager. We have 



