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 B UBAL LFE OF OHOTN UB principal source of income is agriculture. plots of land will require additional rent; greater the income, the greater the rent. Additional and hence The increase in the amount of income is followed by an increase in the percentage of outlay for sundries. This is Engel's fourth proposition. This is applicable, if in sundries we 'include drinking'. Some of the lower classes of villagers have  vicious habit of drinking. If there is an extra income, it is sure to be spent on drinkintl. In conclusion, I beg to suggest that in any scheme of political or economic we should never lose sight of should lwys remember, that villagers is synonymous with the For the strength and the stamina progress of the vOlsgers; the welfare welfare of a, nc we of the of India. India are not lodged in the. city-bred, but more l.nly and more actually n those people who are n touch with the soil--the so 11ed "rustic" population.