Excerpt from India: Impressions and Suggestions Labourers, wrote the Official who compiled the report, whom nothing would have induced to work more than six hours in twenty-four (under native rule), and who Often declined to work at all on a cloudy day, were willing to toil from sunrise to sunset (under British rule). This would be amusing were it not that it is seriously advanced as a proof of the blessings which our rule has brought to the peasants Of India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...
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Excerpt from India: Impressions and Suggestions Labourers, wrote the Official who compiled the report, whom nothing would have induced to work more than six hours in twenty-four (under native rule), and who Often declined to work at all on a cloudy day, were willing to toil from sunrise to sunset (under British rule). This would be amusing were it not that it is seriously advanced as a proof of the blessings which our rule has brought to the peasants Of India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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