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THE September part of the most recent volume of the Transactions of the Mining and Geological Institute of India contains an important paper by Mr. R. R. Simpson, chief inspector of mines in India, upon the social conditions of miners in India, together with an animated discussion upon it. The paper is particularly interesting in itself, and all the more so because it discusses in detail a number of the very numerous recommendations made by the Royal Commission sent out in 1929 to inquire into Indian labour conditions, which made its report in 1931. The members who discussed the paper expressed varying views, and evidently looked upon Mr. Simpson's paper as a peg on which to hang the discussion of the recommendations of the Royal Commission. The paper and discussion occupy considerably more than fifty pages, and, therefore, do not lend themselves to any ready abstract, but both are well worth careful study on the part of those who wish to understand thoroughly Indian labour conditions.
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Social Conditions of Miners in India. Nature 130, 843 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130843b0
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