INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

96 FINANCIAL AND OTHER RESULTS
the most favoured districts as regards the
completeness of its famine-preventive works.
The remissions in these several famines,­
III., £341,000; IV., £488,000; V., £132,000;
and X., £123,000, - bear out the principle
mentioned - viz., that as constructive works
increase, relief should diminish. The increase
between III. and IV. is consistent, because
preventive works, snch as the Ganges Canal,
had not then been undertaken. The marked
difference between IV. and V., during the
latter of which the first beneficial influences of
the canal (as one item of improvement) were
felt, is satisfactory. The result, as indicated by
the "tuccavee," does not quite bear out the
same hypothesis. These advances were,-for
nL, £100,000; IV., nil; V., £34,000; and
x., £93,000. From the latter sum, however,
to afford a fair ground of comparison with the
others, £40,000 should be deducted, because
this sum was advanced in districts, such as
Bundelcund, which were beyond the reach
of beneficial works like the Ganges Canal,
and where large irrigation-works have not yet
been inaugurated. After making this deduc-