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 G. KALg villages are typiea  Do villes indeed exist which can safely be assumed to be typical ? I can iressine nothing more misleading, nothing more dangerous t sn enquiry of this nature, conducted with the avowed intention of arguing from the minute parcuhtr to the enormous general--of having a huge pyramid of conclusions upon the slenderest apex of facts." That this view of the matter' is held even to-day by. Government, may be seen from the speech made by the Hon'ble Sir Claude Hill on the resolution moved in the Supreme Lislative Council by the Hon'ble P Bahsdur D. B. Shukul in September l&st. He took the conclusions formulated by Dr. Mann in his ' Life and Lat5or in irate the dangex  of a Deccan Village'to demons- concentrating inquiry upon a typical village and to suggest that the results of his enquiry were not of conclusive value in reference to the economic condition even of the particular village selected for investigation. Sir Claude ehsrscteris the results of Dr. Mann's inquiry as liable to be mislead- ing and 'likely to give results contrary to hots,' and ecrumended inquiries of the type of the one carried out by the late Major Jack in Bengal and dealing with & whole homogeneous district. Such criticism, I am sure, has not depressed Dr. Mann, nor will it diseoura41e any other student of economics worth his salt. The Government of India, for instance, while agrg with most of the conclusions of Mr. D's inquiry into the not accept his causes of view that high prices in Xndia did the prices of food grains h ,risen because production had failed to keep pace with demand. there will always be, cool the ardor of the however, to emphssise dferent situations must Difference of opinion and it cannot investigator. is that contue of this nature be allowed to WhstI wish, while villages in n 'arger number