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OF FIRST INVESTIGATIONS ON THE EFFICIENCY AGRICULTURAL LABOR IN WESTERN IND? HAROLD H. MANN, ?.se. OF AGBICUL?YIIE, BOMBAY PIlESXD?CY extremely ency, in country is subject is fence, or books or matter. greatest One of books on Indi? /s statement to the effect that Indian l?bor is inetRcient, and that it is to this inoflici- part, that the slow development of the due. But so far as exact data on the concerned there is little or none in exis- at any rate presented in most of the papers which speak so confidently on the And yet it is a matter on which the caution, .it seems to me, should be exer- of the commonplaces cised in expressing an opinion, for efficiency is such a complex question that unless it in labor is very carefully investigated, and the various factors included in the term 'efficiency' are isolated, it may be possible to come to totally erroneous conclusions. I will only suggest one factor which has, I believe, been forgotten in most statements on the subject,--