ABSTRACT
The greater part of what is produced is for use and not for sale, and so never leaves the local area; and a money economy, though it exists for certain purposes and at present is extending its scope almost everywhere, nonetheless forms a subordinate part of the local economy. The investigators come from a town centre and have been brought up on the views of more or less orthodox economics; they will find it very difficult to see with the eyes of a villager, to whom their ideas are quite strange and very remote from his conception of the situation. Dr. Mukherjee does state that it took the Indian Statistical Institute eight to ten years to create a pool of workers competent to collect data from villagers; and he quotes with approval Beatrice Webb’s requirement of special preparedness in the mind of any investigator of social and economic conditions.
