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IN certain villages in the Indian Central Provinces, besides the village blacksmith, the village accountant, the village watchman, and the like, there is an official termed the gàpogàri, whose duty it is to make rain. So long as the seasons are good and the rain comes in due season, his office is no doubt a pleasant and lucrative one. It is not very laborious, and it is obviously the interest of all to keep him in good humour. But if, as sometimes happens, the hot dry weather of April and May is prolonged through June and July, and week after week the ryot sees his young sprouting crops withering beneath the pitiless hot winds, public feeling is wont to be roused against the peccant rain-maker, and he is led forth and periodically beaten until he mends his ways and brings down the much-needed showers.
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How Rain is Formed 1 . Nature 39, 224–229 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039224c0
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