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 G. KALII money-making landlord and there are many important considerations that make it a sound policy to give a long guarantee." The comment o! another offici on this was :-.-" It is, I bet/eve, a fact that the finances o! (overnment now-a-days are so straitened that it is a matter o! great difficulty alter providing [or ordinary recurring charges to find a surplus [or meeting urgent and recognised wants. Under such circumstances, a (overnment which in justice to the general tax-payer and in the true interest o! the country at large wisely husbands its principal asset, need not be airaid o! .the reproach o! being a mere money-making landlord." Settlement reports on some o[ the talukas 1889 and farther back and us a history of the extending economic give three development over about the condition date from continuous o! those are3s generat/ons. Captain Wingate of the people in the in writing 8holspur District in 1889, found in it s demonstration of the population theory of Malthus whom he quoted in his report. He .wrote: "Notwithstanding the scanty population and abundance of unoccupied fertile land, we find that the means of subsistsnee are obtained with difilcty, that the exertions of even the laborious and industriot/s cultivator do not always avail in enabling him to preserve his position and rarely indeed to better it. A further interesting illustration of the important problems involved in settlement inquiries, is furnished by the reports upon some of the talukss of the Kansrs Oollectorste recently published, which may be taken as typical for our present purpose. The villages in Ksrwsr taluk, which were the subject of investigation in 1908, had been originally settled st .different dates report starts with a physical [eatures and to give an account between 1869 and 1872. The description of the boundaries, soils of the Taluks and proceeds