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Sir W. M. Ramsay, "The Turkish Peasantry of Anatolia," Quarterly Review, January, 1918. I. e. peasants and landlords. Mukerjee, op. cit., p. 9. On the co-operative movement in India, see Fisher, India's Silent Revolution, pp. 54-58; R. B. Ewebank, "The Co-operative Movement in India," Quarterly Review, April, 1916.
For increased expenditure on Western products, see A. J. Brown, "Economic Changes in Asia," The Century, March, 1904; J. P. Jones, "The Present Situation in India," Journal of Race Development, July, 1910; R. Mukerjee, The Foundations of Indian Economics, p. 5.
India's economic problems, both agricultural and industrial, have been carefully studied by a large number of Indian economists, some of whose writings are extremely interesting. See also writings of the economists Gosh, Mukerjee, Ray, and Sarkar, above quoted, as well as the various writings of the nationalist agitator Lajpat Rai.
A good summary interpretation is found in M. Glotz, "Le Mouvement 'Swadeshi' dans l'Inde," Revue du Mois, July, 1913. Sir T. Morison, The Economic Transition in India, pp. 240-241. Also see Sir Valentine Chirol, Indian Unrest, pp. 255-279; William Archer, India and the Future, pp. 131-157. Good examples are found in the writings of Mukerjee and Lajpat Rai, already quoted.
Wealth goes to the cleverest, and the land must pass into the hands of new masters, to the great indignation of the agricultural classes, a portion of whom will be reduced to the position of farm-labourers." The Hindu economist Mukerjee thus depicts the disintegration and decay of the Indian village: "New economic ideas have now begun to influence the minds of the villagers.
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