India and daily life in Bengal . atethe small rice fields from each other. These are thelowest grade of roads, and constitute three-fourths ofall the roads. The next higher class of roads are the kancha roadsof the country. Let us understand the words kanchaand pucca before we go any farther, for they are suchsignificant words that they have become means incomplete, and pucca the may be applied to a poor road, to unripe fruit,to a man who lacks a little in intelligence, to a poorlyconstructed house, or to a poor job of work of anykind. The greater portion of t
India and daily life in Bengal . atethe small rice fields from each other. These are thelowest grade of roads, and constitute three-fourths ofall the roads. The next higher class of roads are the kancha roadsof the country. Let us understand the words kanchaand pucca before we go any farther, for they are suchsignificant words that they have become means incomplete, and pucca the may be applied to a poor road, to unripe fruit,to a man who lacks a little in intelligence, to a poorlyconstructed house, or to a poor job of work of anykind. The greater portion of the country roads ofAmerica would be called kancha in India. These roadsmay be found every five or six miles apart, leadingout from some larger village to a main trunk road,which runs, I think, through every district in thecountry. One is liable to many different kinds of experiencesin traveling over these roads. In Bengal they areusually narrow turnpikes, and the bridges are quiteoften made of wood. The floods may wash the turn-. Bringing in rice sheaves from the Held
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