Excerpt from The Foundations of Indian Economics Professor mukerjee honours me by his wish that I should write the introduction to his volume and I willingly attempt this. As an eager reader, and even an old reviewer of books on India, I can honestly invite others to follow him through the villages and fields, and into the homes and work shops to which he leads us, and of which he has so much to tell. Since the appearance of The Web of Indian Life, by his and my old friend Sister Nivedita, I know of no such further and fuller volume, again sympathetic and suggestive and now detailed and practical, even reconstructive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.