jeyt

Updated: June 16, 2025

Some extracts from his letters of this period are subjoined. To Sir Charles Trevelyan. Camp, Jeyt: February 23, 1863. No doubt there is a deficiency of labour in some parts of India, and an excess in others. Moreover, there are moral and physical obstacles which put difficulties in the way of the transfer of labour from places where it is redundant to those where it is wanting.

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