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Page 347
... earn good money , at busy times as much as one rupee a day and generally between 15 and 20 rupees a month . But the " busy " times consist of barely 2 months a year . It is only during the sowing and harvesting of crops that there is a ...
... earn good money , at busy times as much as one rupee a day and generally between 15 and 20 rupees a month . But the " busy " times consist of barely 2 months a year . It is only during the sowing and harvesting of crops that there is a ...
Page 376
... earning another twenty six lakhs . Incredible as it may appear , the non - Bengali mochis thus earn somewhere near fifty lakhs or half a crore of rupees a year . Round about the town of Dacca the chamars who have no trade to ply are in ...
... earning another twenty six lakhs . Incredible as it may appear , the non - Bengali mochis thus earn somewhere near fifty lakhs or half a crore of rupees a year . Round about the town of Dacca the chamars who have no trade to ply are in ...
Page 377
... earns a crore or more of rupees in the shoe and tannery trade alone . Over and above that the Chinese carpenters earn several lakhs a year . V. FAILURE DUE TO WANT OF ENTERPRISE AND INITIATIVE . Then again when I first came to Calcutta ...
... earns a crore or more of rupees in the shoe and tannery trade alone . Over and above that the Chinese carpenters earn several lakhs a year . V. FAILURE DUE TO WANT OF ENTERPRISE AND INITIATIVE . Then again when I first came to Calcutta ...
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acid agricultural began Bengal Bombay Bose boys Brahmo Samaj British C. R. Das Calcutta University capital career century Chandra Charka Chemical Society chemist Chinese Company course crores crores of rupees Dacca district earn East Bengal economic Edinburgh England English Europe European export fact factory father flood foreign Gandhi Ghosh Gokhale Government hand Hare School Hindu Hindu Chemistry important India industry Institute Japan Jessore jute Keshab Chandra Sen Khulna knowledge laboratory labour lakhs land learning lectures letter literature living London Lord manufacture Marwari Megh Nad Saha merchants millions modern Mohan months Nath nature non-Bengali organisation P. C. Rây political present Presidency College Professor province railway realise rice rupees Sanskrit success tion took trade up-country village wealth young youngmen