The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . fferent are the two that thestudent of the one would scarcely recognize theother if without a guide he should suddenly findhimself in a Hindu village. Nine-tenths of the tillers of the soil are smallfarmers who hold varying term leases from theZemindars—landed proprietors—and the cultivationis by the entire family, with its own stock andsuch primitive implements as may be has been well said, that if the half of the moneyspent after famines compelled its di
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . fferent are the two that thestudent of the one would scarcely recognize theother if without a guide he should suddenly findhimself in a Hindu village. Nine-tenths of the tillers of the soil are smallfarmers who hold varying term leases from theZemindars—landed proprietors—and the cultivationis by the entire family, with its own stock andsuch primitive implements as may be has been well said, that if the half of the moneyspent after famines compelled its disbursement hadbeen previously devoted by the Government to theencouragement of modern cultivation, there wouldhave been a saving effected of the larger part of theother half. Yes, and were the policy pursued ofstimulating the establishing of manufacturingplants to induce the general use of agriculturalimplements, by enabling the furnishing of them atprices which could be paid, another bulwark againstpossible distress and death would be insured. England is not an agricultural country, Russia is, 258 THE HINDU and the latter would have comprehended Indiasneed and advanced the material welfare of thenative as the former never has. So would she havelikewise grasped the religious situation, and therewould have been to-day a thousand converts to theGreek Church where there is one to the EstablishedChurch. It is the Russian—not the English—method in the colonization of Eastern peopleswhich should be studied. Rank heresy I know,but it will not be so characterized later on whenthe sentimental gives way to the practical view ofexisting conditions. Between the Zemindars who own the land, theGovernment, which exacts from the tenants uponit upwards of one-fourth the entire public revenuereceived from all sources, and the tax gatherers,whose share annually aggregates into the millionsof dollars, the farmer himself has, literally, a hardrow to hoe. More fearful of the govern
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