ABSTRACT
George Frederick Arnold was the Deputy Secretary to the Government of India Legislative Department and Acting Divisional Judge at Prome, Burma. A man of many and varied interests, he was the rst writer to apply psychology to the study of the legal process. His paper on the Burmese cotton industry concentrates on the manufacture of cotton fabrics, though also touches on the cultivation of cotton and the cotton trade. As discussed in the thematic introduction, his conclusion that the sector was in terminal decline was overly pessimistic in that both the domestic and factory industry survived.1
