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Excerpt from An Essay on the Economic Causes of Famines in India: And Suggestions to Prevent Their Frequent Recurrence; Being the Biresvar Mitter Prize Essay for 1905 It is understood that the Punjab Act will serve as a model for other provinces where the expropriation of the peasantry by the money-lender is a social and political danger. It is hoped that when the time comes for introducing it into the other provinces, the public will gladly welcome it in the interests of the sowcar-ridden peasantry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.