Excerpt from Village-Communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford to Which Are Added Other Lectures, Addresses and Essays The eminent German writers whose conclusions are briefly summarised in the Third and Fifth Lectures are comparatively little known in England, and a list of their principal works is given in the Second Appendix. For such knowledge of Indian phenomena as he possesses the writer is much in debted to the conversation of Lord Lawrence, whose capacity for the political direction of the patives of India was acquired by patient study of their ideas and usages during his early career. The principal statements made in the text concerning the Indian village-communities have been submitted to Sir George Campbell, now lieut.-governor of Bengal, who has been good enough to say that they coincide in the main with the results of his own experience and Observation, which have been very extensive. No general assertions are likely to be true without large qualification of a country so vast as India, but every effort has been made to control the state ments of each informant by those of others. 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.