 | South Carolina Bar Association - Bar associations - 1886 - 742 pages
...toil, what is necessary for living human lives, — lives of frugal and assured comfort. . . . But millions of peasants in India are struggling to live...existence is a constant struggle with starvation, ejiding too often in defeat. Their difficulty is not to live human lives, — lives up to the level... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - Great Britain - 1902 - 424 pages
...of population which India can comfortably support, except near towns or in irrigated districts. But millions of peasants in India are struggling to live...difficulty is not to live human lives — lives up to the leT of their poor standard of comfort — but to live at all and not die. . . . We may truly say that... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Ethnology - 1902 - 354 pages
...of population which India can comfortably support, except near towns or in irrigated districts. But millions of peasants in India are struggling to live on half an acre. Their existence is a constant battle with starvation, ending, too often, in defeat. Their difficulty is not to live human lives —... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Ethnology - 1902 - 354 pages
...moderate toil, what is necessary for living human lives . 284 But for millions of the Indian peasantry the difficulty is not to live human lives — lives up to the level of their low standard of comfort — but to live at all . . . 285. Common misconception regarding the riches... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - Philippines - 1903 - 72 pages
...moderate toil, what is necessary for living human lives,— lives of frugal and assured comfort. . . . But millions of peasants in India are struggling to live...comfort,— but to live at all, and not die. . . . We may truly say that in India, except in the irrigated tracts, famine is chronic,— endemic." * How is it... | |
 | Arthur Sawtell - Great Britain - 1904 - 156 pages
...steady struggle for the necessities of existence. An ex-Indian official, writing recently, has said : " Millions of peasants in India are struggling to live on half an acre. Their existence is a constant battle with starvation, ending too often in defeat. Their difficulty is not to live human lives —... | |
 | Lajpat Rai (Lala) - Hindu civilization - 1907 - 334 pages
...is a relative term and that in a tropical countty like India the standard is very low ******** but millions of peasants in India are struggling to live...Their existence is a constant struggle with starvation leading too often in defeat. Their difficulty is not to live human lives — lives up to the level... | |
 | Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani - India - 1922 - 194 pages
...Problem." He was an official in India; he wrote from experience. " Millions of peasants in India," he said, "are struggling to live on half an acre. Their existence is a constant battle with starvation, ending so often in defeat. Their difficulty is not to live human lives, —... | |
 | Pestonji Ardesir Wadia, Gulabbhai Naranji Joshi - India - 1925 - 460 pages
...is poor is a proposition that would be denied by no one " (Report of the Fiscal Commission, p. 113). "Their existence is a constant struggle with starvation,...standard of comfort — but to live at all, and not die " (India and its Problems, by WS Lilly, p. 285). " Poverty, grinding poverty, is a tremendous fact... | |
 | William Edward Sladen Holland - British - 1927 - 264 pages
...as the fact that certain classes of the population are too poor to buy all the food they require.3 Their difficulty is not to live human lives — lives...standard of comfort — but to live at all, and not die.4 Single rooms house ninety-seven per cent of the working-class families in Bombay with an average... | |
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But millions of peasants in India are struggling to live on half an acre. Their existence is a constant struggle with starvation, ending too often in defeat. Their difficulty is not to live human lives — lives up to the level of their poor standard... 
