 | John Atkinson Hobson - History - 1965 - 412 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...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."1 A century... | |
 | J. A. Hobson - History - 2005 - 397 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...— lives up to the level of their poor standard of comfortbut to live at all and not die. . . . We may truly say that in India, except in the irrigated... | |
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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... 
