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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 3, p. xxxv.

TAiBLE OF CONTEATS xxxv The official returns 6 Payment of wages in kind 467 Difficulties in using the wages returns 4.68 Variations of wages in different localities and in different circumstances . 468 Conclusion 471 Bibliography 47I Average monthly wage, in rupees and decimals of a rupee, of---an able-bodied agricultural labourer, a syce or horse-keeper, and a common mason, carpenter, or blacksmith 472 CHAPTER X FAMINE A TShe Cause of Faniz' e Famines periodic 475 Dependence of India on agriculture 4-75 The two monsoons 476 South-west monsoon and the autumn harvest 476 North-east monsoon and the spring harvest 476 Cause of famine 477 I. The EFamine Problem, and Modern Relief Removal of former checks on population . 477 Statement of the famine problem 477 Modern relief policy 478 Practical difficulties 478 A modern plan of campaign 479 Standing preparations 479 Danger signals 480 Preliminary action . 480 The period of test 480 The period of general relief 48S Cholera 481 Rains policy; the beginning of the end .18i Closure of relief . . . . . . . . 82 Charitable relief funds 482 The Indian people's famine trust 482 Improved communications, and greater knowledge, the main causes of efficiency in famine relief . 482 Present elasticity in the relief system 483