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 66 GILBERT SLATER 'servants, and how many engaged in industrial occupa- tions. I hope he would also find what their incomes are. The estimate of incomes is a difficult task, I recognlse. There were other subjects which Sir Theodore Mol'ison als, suggested for special study, for example, the indigenous system of banking of Nattukottai Chef- ties, and Industrial Guilds. But it was the economic survey of typical most stress, and Indian villages upon which he laid it was in this direction that the Madras Economic Association directed its first efforts. During the year 1913 Mr. C.D. Subramania Cherry and Mr. T. Krishnaswami Ayyar took up the work, and in the beginning of 1914 read papers to the Association containing economic surveys of the villages of Kolavur, Kizhaputhaneri, and Vanniyampakam. Although the original inspirer of this line of investigation in Madras was Sir Theodore Morison, a great deal of the credit of what has been accomplished is due %o Sir Harold Stuart, portant who n the midst duties found time of his numerous and im- to encourage actively the been at work. also occurred to pursuit of exact economic knowledge. Meanwhile another 'enquirer had Sir Theodore Morison's idea had Dr. Harold Mann, Principal of the Agricultural College of the Bombay Presidency at Pocna, and he more fully than any one else carried out the enquiry which was suggested by Sir Theodore Morison. He carefully selected what he judg,d to be a typical village of the Bombay Deccan, Pimpla Soudagar. He secured the co-operation of eight assistants, and for a long period made an exhaustive survey with the object of ascer- taining the exact economic condition of the village at the present time, its previous history, and-the econo- mic forces determining its probable future. Some of the facts collected in this inquiry formed the subject