Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-March, 1911, Number 4

Even in [???] [???] production 3 to 5 natives to do work of one Englishman at home

Bulk mills owned & operatd [bracketed text] by Hindus pcply 1 mix & Parsees 2 [???] mohamdns 3 [end bracketed text] [text to right of bracketed text] Bombay [end text to right of bracketed text]

1 day week holiday

Sometimes 157 hrs wk a day Asked reform themselves witht govt interfernce suspics of one another [crossed out word] If [end crossed out word] When he does it, I'll do it"

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Mr.

If develop own races & [???] might evthg dvlp a U.S. of India

We'd be wlg to lv them on their owns lgs if they cd std but they cn't

Grtst fellowo you ever saw for intfg with anybody else's busins & ngletg hs own

[%?] Bengalis in Brit Army a native [???]

23 Mohdm kld riot

3/4 of ^(Ind) Cong [???] race not 18,000,000

[???] [???] & [vandals?]

Tribes that came from Persia, Afhanistan etc

Bengals aboriginal & Mongol

Punjab & Rajputana only pure Aryans

[crossed out text] west Coast Brahman won't eat with (real) Bgli V inf to hm [end crossed out text]

We've stpd wars infanticide poisoning famine incsg too

[???] to Hindu wdg [???] [crossed out] 6 [end crossed out] 8 to 10 years old

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native women old at 30

Hate one anthr mr thn thy ht us, bcs thy cn always [???] tht The [crossed out] [Tho?] [end crossed out] Sahib does them justice

[crossed out] [1st?] [end crossed out] Bombay st car employees petn agst ptg "ntv man" over them; wtd Erpn Sahib instd

3/4 of our trouble comes from misunderstanding of Indn [???] on th [???] of the people at home

[circled text] no less caste svts Ahmedabad [end circled text]

In ctn crop

400 lb bales

[bracketed text] 1905-6 3,416,000 6-7 4,934000 7-8 3,122000 [crossed out text] 9-10 [end crossed out text] ^(8-9) 3,692,000 9-10 4,502,000 (est) 10-11 4,668,000 [end bracketed text] [text to right of bracketed text] [crossed out] 3 [end crossed out] [end text to right of bracketed text]

Prices Jan 1911 best ctn avg 350 rupees for candy 784 lbs

Land [blsmd?] like light [???] run over it

Betel nut at wedding