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 INDIAN JOURNAL F ECONOMICS Vol. I. Part 2. 1918 SOUTH INDIAN ECONOMICS GILBERT SLATER, D.Sc., M.A. UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS It is ..well for me to explain in the beginning that the word 'South India'in my title means the sough- corner of the peninsula eastern east of the Palghat Gap to since December railway line Cochin. from I have lying Madras south and through the only lived in India one of my duties 1915, and while is  visi different parts of the Presidency of Madras and he States which come within the geographical sphere of the University of lIadras, I have begun my journeys in the corner mentioned, and have not ye ' been able to visit the northern part of the Presidency and the State of Hyderabad. For many years two economic  India have excited my concern. questions relating At different periods we have had harrowing details in England of Indian famines; and he question has pressed upon my mind  what exen the causes of famines have been purely the failure of monsoons or other climatic anisforunes I Deliverel in Bombay on the Oth July, 1917,