Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Proposal for an Indian Policy Under the New Reform Parliament, Read at a Meeting of the East India Association, February 1st, 1868: The Development of the Dormant Wealth of the British Colonies and Foreign Possessions, Read at the Social Science Congress, Birmingham, October 6th, 1868
We all know about the periodical famines in India, how each sweeps from the land by starvation from three-quarters to a million-and-a half of our thrifty fellow-subjects.
We are also very forcibly made aware of several other facts much nearer home. The want of employment in our dockyards, the unprecedented increase of pauperism and crime, the dearness of the prime necessaries of life, and the consequent distress of those who possess a moderate fixed income. The empty factories, with their machinery rusting away, to be counted by scores, and the dilapidated empty cottages counted by thousands in our manufacturing districts, which before the cotton famine used to absorb and find honest and profitable employment for our surplus agricultural population.
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