 So constant and accumulating a drain even on England would soon impoverish her; how severe then must be its effects on India, where the wages of a labourer is from two pence to three pence a day?  Behar (Patna city) and Shahabad - Page xiiby Robert Montgomery Martin - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Dadabhai Naoroji - Great Britain - 1888 - 248 pages
...interest, to the enormous sum of ^723,900,000 sterling So constant and accumulating a drain, even in England, would soon impoverish her. How severe then must be its effects on India, where the wage of a labourer is from twopence to threepence a day ? " In volume III., page 4, &c., alluding to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1894 - 906 pages
...interest to the enormous sum of £723,900,000 sterling. So constant and accumulating a drain, even iu England, would soon impoverish her. How severe, then, must be its effects in India where the wage of a labourer is from 2d. to 3d. a day." The drain at present was seven times,... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - Civilization, Hindu - 1896 - 320 pages
...723,900,000 sterling t So constant and accumulat"The British Empire." p. 70. "ing a drain, even in England, would soon impoverish her. How severe, then, must be its effects on India •where the wage of a labourer is from two pence to three •pence a day."* Sir John Shore writing in 1787 says... | |
 | India - 1898 - 494 pages
...interest to the enormous sum of £723,900,000 sterling. So constant and accumulating a drain, even in England, would soon impoverish her. How severe then must be its effects upon India where the wage of a labourer is from twopence to threepence a day." The drain at present... | |
 | William Digby - Great Britain - 1901 - 736 pages
...interest, to the enormous sum of j£728,000,000 sterling. ... So constant and accumulating a drain, even in England, would soon impoverish her. How severe, then, must be its effects on India, where the wage of a labourer is from twopence to threepence a day!' At the end of the century, in the earlier... | |
 | Prithwis Chandra Ray - Famines - 1901 - 126 pages
...,£723,000,000 sterling in 30 years, and remarked that "so constant and accumulating a drain, even in England, would soon impoverish her. How severe, then, must be its effects on India, where the wage of a labourer is from 2d to 3d a day."* John Stuart Mill has pointed out in very clear and forcible... | |
 | Theophilus E. Samuel Scholes - Black race - 1908 - 520 pages
...historian who wrote upon the subject of the British Colonies, writing in 1838, said : — " So constant a drain even on England would soon impoverish her...severe, then, must be its effects on India, where the wage of a labourer is from twopence to threepence a day ? " John Stuart Mill, in the petition which... | |
 | Theophilus E. Samuel Scholes - Black race - 1908 - 516 pages
...historian who wrote upon the subject of the British Colonies, writing in 1838, said : — "So constant a drain even on England would soon impoverish her...severe, then, must be its effects on India, where the wage of a labourer is from twopence to threepence a day ? " John Stuart Mill, in the petition which... | |
 | Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - Science - 1910 - 616 pages
...the few." Mr. Montgomery Martin, a historian of the British Colonies and Dependencies, wrote in 1838: "So constant and accumulating a drain, even on England,...would soon impoverish her; how severe, then, must be the effect on India, where the wages of a labourer is from two pence to three pence a day."f Prof.... | |
 | Lajpat Rai (Lala) - British - 1917 - 410 pages
...£4,000,000." 4 Mr. Montgomery Martin, a historian of the British colonies and dependencies, wrote in 1838: " So constant and accumulating a drain, even on England,...would soon impoverish her; how severe, then, must be the effect on India, where the wages of a labourer is from two pence to three pence a day." s Prof.... | |
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