Abstract

I need hardly point out to you that Mysore is essentially an agricultural country and that, as far as we can now see, it is likely to remain so. I need perhaps also hardly remind you that nearly one-half of the State's revenue is derived directly from the agriculturist and that of the rest a very consider- able proportion is derived either from the owners or tenants of land or from the labourers on it. If, therefore, this State is to take that place in the future Commonwealth of India which we believe she should occupy, it must be very largely through the development of this great industry. The steady progress of Mysore must be based on the increasing prosperity of her ryot population. To hope for a prosperous and enlightened Mysore, with, at the same time, a poverty-stricken ryot population would be absurd.

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