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oil," and will build him a factory. The old preju- 

 dicial influences, inculcated by caste restrictions, or 

 ghostly fear, have disappeared ; the zemindar is 

 wealthy and will be his own banker, to whom 

 no interest accrues ; the ziraths of our capitalist 

 over-way, stretch tenantless around him ; and he has 

 but to cast about him for the malcontent Assistant 

 who is able, and but too willing, to help him. 



3. The small outside capitalist or would-be planter 

 a recalcitrant and aggressive person, who has clear- 

 ed his lakh or so in various contracts, " wise and other- 

 wise," and who sees in indigo a hopeful venture in 

 which to invest his " pile." Under the eyes of the 

 very protectors who had, in many instances, furnished 

 him with the means to fortune ready made, this 

 unruly reprobate would " rear his crest " and interlope. 

 What indigo man but calls to mind the flatulent 

 fortitude of such men as the quasi -truculent conspi- 

 rators the hitherto automatic dumb waiters on their 

 masters, the planters, whose mighty minds would 

 henceforward be devoted to the construction of pre- 

 datory vats. The outside capitalist and his tribe buy 

 shares in old established concerns, and, failing in 

 ambition to outshine the sun, are feign to twinkle 

 lowly little stars afar off, and to comfort themselves 

 with the thought that were but the great orb away 

 each twinkling star would be a sun. 



