INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

OF PAST F...tMISES. 87
ous notes showing the sources of the information,
and how the sums - total have been
arrived at. This, of course, will only interest
those who have the means of testing the accuracy
of the figures; but the plan has been
also adopted with the hope that I may receive
assistance in eompleting the table.
I might have enlarged the statement by
giving the amount of revenue demands, and
comparing them with the amounts suspended
or remitted, and shown in another column the
absolute losses thereby. Also, the total amount
of expenditure on relief might have been separated
into (1) Relief-works; (2) Public Charity;
and (3) Private Charity ~ all of which have
been thrown together. But to do so I thought
would complicate the table and exceed the proposed
range of this book
The first five columns need no explanation.
Of the sixth it is to be observed that it represents
the population of the affected districts. It
is, of course, a difficult matter to draw a hardand-fast
line between plenty on one side and
famine on the other. The figures neither represent
the population of whole provinces,