TH.E STUDY OF RURAL ECONOMICS IN SOUTH INDIA PROFESSOR GILBERT SLATER, ,?.?. UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS A new impulse was given to the study of econo- mics in the Madras Presidency by the formation of the Madras Economic Association organised in 1912. The inaugural address was given by Sir Theodore Morison on January 16, 1913, with His Excellency Lord Pentland in the chair. In that "H. E. Lord passage, to the address occurs the following Pentland has already referred which .has not yet been prodnced,? but a paper which I want to read, a paper which I imagine this society or some society like the London may produce. I and statistical, of 'one typical Indian author of the paper nmst take the village he can, and then find out Royal Statistical Society in mean an account, sociological village. The most typical how many people live there, then he would analyse the way they made their living, what they did, how many were agricul- turists, how many were tenants, how many were village predominantly agricultu'ral structure of society here, and my own perusal of the Census suggested to me a subject which may perhaps be dealt with in one of .the learned papers of this society. It is a paper
