. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . ises. Some of the ancestral industries are reviving, andadapting themselves to the new mechanical contrivances forlarger production. The increase of the foreign trade reveals alarge development of native as well as foreign industry andenterprise. Thirty-three years ago the foreign trade of Indiaamounted to only $250,000,000. Now it amounts to $700,000,000,the export trade of which amounts to $400,000,000. With thegrowth of agriculture, the enlargement of the earlier industries,the improvement of business habits, and the development of
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . ises. Some of the ancestral industries are reviving, andadapting themselves to the new mechanical contrivances forlarger production. The increase of the foreign trade reveals alarge development of native as well as foreign industry andenterprise. Thirty-three years ago the foreign trade of Indiaamounted to only $250,000,000. Now it amounts to $700,000,000,the export trade of which amounts to $400,000,000. With thegrowth of agriculture, the enlargement of the earlier industries,the improvement of business habits, and the development of acommercial taste, the imports will be less needed. Why shouldIndia import cottons from Manchester, or cutlery from Sheffield,or pottery from Staffordshire ? She was producing all thesewares in great beauty and fineness when the Briton was dancingin savage glee around the rude circle of Stonehenge. She cando it again, though the Briton has gone to Westminster, andhas produced Hampden, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton, andnew civilizations beyond many iWjffiffi CARVING ON THE BUDDHIST TOWER AT SARNATH. > n a r- S IB ao > >ow ? 5?
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