FOOTNOTES:
[98] “India is suffering seriously in several ways, and is sinking in poverty.” (Poverty of India, by Dadabhai Naoreji.)
[99] “India is, on the whole, a very poor country: the mass of the population enjoy only a scanty subsistence.” (Lord Lawrence, 1864.)
“I admit the comparative poverty of this country as compared with many other countries of the same magnitude and importance, and I am convinced of the impolicy and injustice of imposing burdens on this people which may be called crushing or oppressive.” (Lord Mayo, March, 1871.)
“It is not too much to say that the very existence of our rule in India may be gravely imperilled unless the finances of the country are placed in a more satisfactory position.” (Professor Fawcett, Feb., 1879.)
“The first thing to do is to point out well that frequent iteration, which alone impresses political masses, that India is of no real use at all to us, that we should be richer, stronger, better, happier without it, that we are cramped, distracted, and impoverished by it.” (Why keep India? by Grant Allen.)
[100] Dr. Watson’s Report.
[101] Government of India Records. Home Agriculture, and Revenue Department, clx. p. 16.
| Cotton | 37,300,000 |
| Silk | 2,400,000 |
| Grain | 66,800,000 |
| Flax | 8,700,000 |
| Sugar | 22,400,000 |
| Tea | 10,900,000 |
| ————— | |
| 148,500,000 |