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Rh population in Gaya: “ Briefly, it is that all the persons of the labouring classes, and ten per cent, of the cultivating and artisan classes, or forty-five per cent, of the total population, are insufficiently clothed, or insufficiently fed, or both. In Gaya district this would give about a million persons without sufficient means of support. If we assume that the circumstances of Gaya are not exceptional,— and there is no reason for thinking otherwise — it follows that nearly one hundred millions of people in British India are living in extreme poverty.” In 1901. “ The poverty and suffering of the people are such as to defy description. In fact, for nearly fifteen years there has been a continuous famine in India owing to high prices.”

''70,000,000 Continually Hungry People in British India. W. Digby.'' “ Since Sir William Hunter's remarks were made the population has increased (or is alleged to have increased) by nearly thirty millions. Meanwhile the income of the Empire has greatly decreased during thism period. Wherefore this follows: that is, if with the same income, in 1880 forty millions were insufficiently fed, the additional millions cannot have had, cannot now have, enough to eat; this, again, ensues: —

40,000,000 plus, say, 30,000,000, make 70,000,000; and there are this number of continually hungry people in British India at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.” —William Digby, C. I. E.

Deaths from Famine from 1891 to 1900 alone: 19,000,000.

Total area under cultivation. In the year 1911-12, the total area under food grains was over 195 million acres, plus 7.5, i. e. over 202x/z million acres.

In 1912-13, India exported foodstuffs of the value of over 260 million dollars.

In 1913-14 she exported about 216 million dollars’ worth of foodstuffs.

''Famines of Money, not Food. Lord G. Hamilton.'' “ The recent famines are famines of money, and not of