INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

86 FINANCIAL AND OTHER RESULTS
background and bring another into prominent
notice. It has therefore been a matter of
considerable labour to prepa.re this table, even
in its present rather incomplete state. While
the greater number of reports, &c., connected
with these famines are available at home, yet
they do not contain all the necessary details.
On the other hand, India does not afford all
the information which the India Office possesses;
it has therefore been impossible, for the
present, to prepare this table in as complete
a manner as it is desirable. I do not wish
to neutralise the value of the table by saying
that it is inaccurate: it is as accurate as
I can possibly make it with the materials
available. I have referred to the difficulty
experienced in abstracting the figures for it
from the different authors, who have their own
various ways of looking at subjects; it is
therefore quite possible that some of the figures
are open to revision. In fact, I would prefer
to put forward the table in a tentative manner
only for the present, and that it may be adopted
as a base to work upon. This table will be
again found in the Appendix, with numer-