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India Poverty and Wages Expose Harsh Life and Famine Threats
Frank G Carpenter portrays India as an empire of paupers amid palaces, detailing wages under two cents to four cents per day for carpenters, laborers, and peasants. He contrasts famine relief, taxes, and debt with urban squalor in Calcutta, and notes rising prices, poor clerical pay, and widespread rural hardship among hundreds of millions reliant on farming and artisanal work.
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Jose Caste
India
Copertant
Frank G. Carpener
Nanabed
Ndfia
Calcutta
Dlacksmithe
Hindustan
Oude
Agra
Palma
Hindustan Ia
Iveries
Clark
United States
Bengal
Bombay
All India
Bombry
Chidren
Delhi
Mud Huta
Frank G
Carpenter