Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager; insufficient food is the foreground. And this is the more extraordinary since the villager is surrounded by a dreamland of plenty. Everywhere you see fields flooded deep with millet and wheat. The village... Indian pictures - Page 123by William Urwick - 1881Full view - About this book
| George R Aberigh- Mackay - 1880 - 284 pages
...? " 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... | |
| George Aberigh-Mackay - 1881 - 276 pages
...? " 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... | |
| George R Aberigh- Mackay - 1882 - 260 pages
...? " 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... | |
| George Aberigh-Mackay - 1896 - 328 pages
...? " 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... | |
| 1906 - 946 pages
...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.... | |
| 1906 - 918 pages
...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.... | |
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