...? " I reply, " Everything." Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager ; insufficient food is the foreground. And this is the more extraordinary since...move sleepily about with an air of luxurious sloth ; and sleek Brahmans utter their lazy prayers while bathing languidly in the water and sunshine of...

...? " I reply, " Everything." Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager ; insufficient food is the foreground. And this is the more extraordinary since...millet and wheat. The village and its old trees have to climh on to a knoll to keep their feet out of the glorious poppy and the luscious sugar-cane. Sumptuous...

...? " I reply, " Everything." Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager ; insufficient food is the foreground. And this is the more extraordinary since...move sleepily about with an air of luxurious sloth ; and sleek Brahmans utter their lazy prayers while bathing languidly in the water and sunshine of...

...? " I reply, " Everything." Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager; insufficient food is the foreground. And this is the more extraordinary since the villager is surrounded hy a, dreamland of plenty. Everywhere you see fields flooded deep with millet and wheat. The village...

...cultivation of the poppy crop : " Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager ; insufficient food is the foreground. And this is the more extraordinary since...of the glorious poppy and the luscious sugar-cane. . . . But even the poor cultivator has his joys beneath the clouds of Revenue Boards and Famine Commissions....

...cultivation of the poppy crop : " Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager ; insufficient food is the foreground. And this is the more extraordinary since...of the glorious poppy and the luscious sugar-cane. . . . But even the poor cultivator has his joys beneath the clouds of Revenue Boards and Famine Commissions....