INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

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first place, I am not at all certain that the trustee
could insist on any such proceeding j but
assuming that he could, he would, at all event~
be morally responsible for providing againsc
the necessity of the Bankruptcy Act being put
in requisition. It would be quite a different
affair, however, were the trustee to say, "Now.
my lad, I have a mind to try some experiments
in draining, &c., and I know that you
are doing your best to practise scientific agriculture;
so I wish to assist you the next time
you have potatoes in that field, by taking thcopportunity
to test some of my theories!"
I now proceed with the second topic. It
appears to be a general presumption that
India is regardless of her "useless gear," and
looks upon death in famine as inevitable. It
is rather hard that fellow-countrymen in India
should be denounced as such cold-blooded individuals.
The same blood runs in their brothers
and sisters at home. How, then, is it that this
change for the worse comes over them? or is
it the case? It is a sign of the times-and a
sign which I do not think is all portent of good
-that the newspapers are so large; bulk is th,