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 SOUTH INDIAN ECONOMICS and that a feeling of mutual trust between the people and the Government is the moral atmosphere in which economic progress alone can thrive. [Note.--Since this lecture was given I have collected further information with regard to relative outputs of a day's labor in conditions. The India ratio and English under of Indian to English similar output varies from about 7 per cent to 100 per cent or over. I have also obtained evidence which points to the conclusion that the reason why a day's work in har- vesting produces so small a result in some districts is that the resident labor transplantation if paddy force required to complete in the proper season, and therefore available for other agricultural so large that there is no need to be expeditious harvesting. An instance is operations, is ovor given above in which the rent received by a patradar is twentysix times as much as the kist. T his is easily surpassed by a village in South Arcot where dry land assessed at'Rs. 3 per acre, when provided with wells and used for tobacco growing, is leased for Rs. 800 per acre, per acre.--G.S.] and sells at Rs. 6,000