ABSTRACT
In April 1878, a young Bengali lawyer from Calcutta, called Prasanna Kumar Sen, wrote a letter to Florence Nightingale, which she answered. The subject of their correspondence was the land tenure system and the conditions of the ryots that existed at the time in Bengal. Sen's first letter to Florence was written on 21 February 1878, when the Arrears of Rent Realization Bill was the topic of the day. He sent her a book and sought her support for the cause of the ryots. She responded in her usual manner in a long letter, referring to the contents of the bill, and the peasant disturbances in the Pabna district. Many of the provisions of the Bill which you notice do certainly seem far too severe and one-sided. Neither the Backergunge nor any other ryots are nearly so bad as they are painted. Florence Nightingale in her reply to Sen expresses herself as a Ryot's faithful servant.
