Note 80 — Chapter XIX · HUMAN SACRIFICE

Cf. Sleeman, Rambles and Recollections, i. 204 sqq.:—“In India, unfavourable seasons produce much more disastrous consequences than in Europe…. More than three-fourths of the whole population are engaged in the cultivation of the land, and depend upon its annual returns for subsistence…. Tens of thousands die here of starvation, under calamities of season, which in Europe would involve little of suffering to any class.”