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FEW aspects of Indian administration have manifested more satisfactory advancements than that of agriculture. Since the date of reorganisation of the department into provincial sections (acting under effective Imperial control), since the date when the bulk of the officials under these became expert agriculturists, the improvement has been both substantial and far-reaching. The keynote, moreover, seems to have been the separation of agriculture from revenue. But one can imagine the old Bengal civilian turning in his grave with horror at the abolition of his “Revenue and Agricultural Department,” the “et cetera” of former times. To-day the people of India can receive the agricultural official as a friend, free from suspicion of mercenary (revenue) alternatives. No better manifestation of this improved relationship could be given than the appearance of the Madras Agricultural Calendar.
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Agriculture in Madras. Nature 100, 76 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100076a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/100076a0