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 REVIEWS OF BOOKS EELATING TO INDIA and Labour I a Deccan Village. D.8C., K.I.H., Publications Series-No pp. v, 177. By H. H. MANN, Principal, Agricultural College, Poona. of the University of Bombay, Economic 1. Bombay: Oxford University Press. 1917. Price Rs. 2. In this volume, which is issued by the Bombay University as the first of an Economic Series, Dr. Mann has collected and edited the results-of a comprehensive economic survey of a village in the Western Deccan, of which a short account was given in the article he contributed to Vol. I., Part 4, of the Indian ffounal of Economics. In it the agricultural economy of an Indian village is exhibited under the microscope, as is were, so that we see a hundred details that we had never seen and had never thought of looking for before. This alone makes the work of first-rate importance to the studen of rural economics in India. The village which is described lies eight miles north-west of Poona, and five miles north-west of Kirkee. Its prcximBy t the former accounts for the importance of vegetables among the village crops; whilst, in the year under review, nearly one-third of the total male population of the village were employed in the ammunition factory at Kirkee. In these circumstances the economic ohara&er of the village eaunot be regarded as typical; but in its agricultural character it is said to be absolutely typical of dry-land villages in the Western Deccan. Two-fifths o! the printed matter is contained in Chapter IV, which deals with the natural vegetation, crops and