Ed.), p.88.

[24] R. Dutt, India and the Victorian Age (1904), pp. 56—7.

[25] B. S. Cohn, The initial British impact on India (Journal of Asian Studies, 19, 1959—60, pp. 418—31) shows that in the Benares district (Uttar Pradesh) officials used their position to acquire land wholesale. Of 74 holders of large estates towards the end of the century, 23 owed the original title to the land to their connections with civil servants (p. 430).

[26] Sulekh Chandra Gupta, Land Market in the North Western Provinces (Utter Pradesh) in the first half of the nineteenth century (Indian Economic Review, IV, 2, August 1958). See also the same author’s equally illuminating and pioneering Agrarian Background of 1857 Rebellion in the North-western Provinces (Enquiry,N. Delhi, Feb. 1959).

[27] R. P. Dutt, India Today (1940), pp. 129—30.

[28] K. H. Connell, Land and Population in Ireland, Economic History Review, II. 3,1950.pp.285, 288.

[29] S. H. Cousens, Regional .Death Rates in Ireland during the Great Famine. Population Studies, XIV, 1, 1960, p. 65.