File:My life-work; (1902) (14597583589).jpg

Original file(2,500 × 1,488 pixels, file size: 344 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

edit
Description
English:

Identifier: mylifework00smit (find matches)
Title: My life-work;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Samuel, 1836-1906
Subjects:
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
atlyby the huge rise in the price of cotton, and by the great specula-tion that was started in Bombay in financial and industrial com-panies. Several of them were then millionaires, and it was awonderful sight to witness the stream of rich equipages that pouredinto the old Fort (as Bombay then was) from Malabar Hill. Foran hour at a time they did not stop ; it reminded one of HydePark during the season. This wonderful prosperity continued fortwo years longer. It led to a wild outbreak of speculation un-paralleled in India. The shares of the famous Back Bay Com-pany went up to 1000 premium. The trading communitybecame intoxicated with sudden fortunes. And tlien the bubbleburst ! The American War came to an end ; a terrific decline inprices occurred ; and merchants, banks, and financial companiestoppled over in a mass of hopeless wreckage. The British panic of1866 synchronized with this collapse. Credit was withdrawn onall sides, and for years there was little else but enforced liquida-
Text Appearing After Image:
FIRST VISIT TO INDIA 6i tion. But few fortunes survived this crisis, and many millionaireshad to commence life again, sadder and wiser men ! One lesson I learned from my travels in India : that was, theextreme poverty of the mass of the Indian people. Travellersnowadays fly over the country on luxurious railways, hardly seeinghow the natives live. They only meet the British official class,or the Anglicized natives ; but this is the mere crust of India.The vast mass of the people live in small rural villages, whollysustained by the soil; nearly nine-tenths of the whole popu-lation do so. The real problem of Indian rule is to protectthe small cultivator or Ryot (or Rayat), and free him, if possible,from the danger of famine on the one side, and the rapacious money-lender on the other. The policy which will secure our hold onIndia is the same which under Lord Cromer has done so muchfor the Egyptian fellaheen. Irrigation, moderate land assess-ment, and protection from the money-lender : t

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14597583589/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)
At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:mylifework00smit
  • bookyear:1902
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Smith__Samuel__1836_1906
  • bookpublisher:London___Hodder_and_Stoughton
  • bookcontributor:
  • booksponsor:
  • bookleafnumber:86
Flickr posted date
InfoField
30 July 2014

Licensing

edit
This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.


Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14597583589. It was reviewed on 26 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

26 September 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:59, 26 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 21:59, 26 September 20152,500 × 1,488 (344 KB)SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs)Bot: Image rotated by 270°
20:11, 26 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 20:11, 26 September 20151,490 × 2,500 (347 KB) (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': mylifework00smit ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fmylifework00smit%2F find matches])<...

There are no pages that use this file.