2 Introductory. 



This work deals simply with general work and 

 details of an ordinary present-day Indigo Assistant's 

 life, together with a few practical hints which are 

 offered en passant for what they are worth ; and it is 

 hoped that this brochure will partly serve to fill a 

 blank long felt, of a record of an Indigo Planter's 

 life, to send Home to friends, or place on the table 

 in India. 



In the illustrations the author has endeavoured 

 to give the scenery and natives as they actually exist 

 at this day in the mofussil or more remote districts 

 of India. Native life, habits, and implements are 

 of the very homeliest, and primitive to a degree ; 

 therefore, the reader must not be surprised at some 

 of the modes of agriculture depicted in the sketches. 



