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$TUDI' OF RURAL ECONOMICS 67. o! ? paper read .to the annual meeting of the Deccan Agricultural Association, which was published under the title "Economics of a Deccan Village" by the Izraelite Press, Poona. A fuller report has been published in the Indian Journal o.? Economics. ? I came out as Professor of in the University of was fortunate Dr. Mann on in having my way Like the all from Sir Theodore Morison I opinion that in the study of Indian Madras in December opportanity Bombay had previously Economics 1915, aad of meeting to Madras. formed Indian Economics the study of the village must take a very for the University University of Madras c iated with that of history prominent I had to consider what resources were available for assisting this work. In the the study of economics is asso- History. It is 'subordinated to in the examinations for degrees, and in the' colleges of the University the teaching of Economics is mainly in the hands of professors a?inted on the strength of their qualifications as historians. It appeared to me that in the first instance aS any rate, I should have to appeal to students to take up the study of Indian Econo?nics for its own sake, as something out- side their work for a degree, and to ntilise their vaca- tions. It appeared to me that in every way the most desirable course practicable would be to ask students, if they were disposed to do so, to make an investigation of their native ?,-illages during the long vacation, and to draw up a series of questions to guide them in their enquiries. The ask. In first step was to find this I had the out what questions to assistance of Mr. E. V. ,?undaram Reddi, at that time a tutor in the Chris- tian College, Madras. I went with Mr. Reddi to his native spent village of Erns'ellipet in four days ?endeavoring to Vol L, pp. 409 ?t s? 1. (D?mber, lg16). South Arcot, and see every possible