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The next chapter deals with income and economic
conditions. The same classification, as above, is maintainS. I give a table of the results arrived at for cultivator?: Class In comfor? Below comfort Above Indigence In Indigence No. of families 167,189. 96,294 68,969 14,706 The total annual income of the was Its. 71,$00,000, or Rs. ?80 per This totel is shown to agree well Pereen? d the population 49% 28 % 18? % agricultural per family per s?uum ?. 865 288 166 115 population family per annum. with the total for the value of the main crops of the district which amounts to Rs. 60,000,000. The difference between the two is easily accounted for by the minor sources of income. Many interesting points are brought to notice in this chapter, on the sources of income, the extent 'to which the peasant works for hire, how the growing of jute converts the "self-sufficing" pes?nt into the more modern producer for s market. These and other points must be passed over in order to briefly examine the chapter on indebted- ness. I 8ire s statement, in tabular form, abbreviated, from the Appendix. INDEBTEDNE88 Total amount d the debt (in lakhs) Average amount of debt per family Percentage of population :-- populsUon u& whole Amongst
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L I Es. [ Rs. 201 I 142 59.9 70 (1) Free from debt ... (2) In debt, ?t ? d the annual income. debt, about ? ennual !neome debt about one years' income () In debt, .about two years' income end more. Average sanount of debt sanongst indebted fsaniUes. 20 % 12% 7% 2% Rs. 144 24 % 18% 7% 1]r% Rs. 121 7s % Es. 258
