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The Experiences of a Landholder and Indigo Planter in Eastern Bengal

by G. Lamb

The 1859 edition of this pamphlet has been digitized by Google, but with the last page left off. Assuming the last sentence on page 20 ends as it did in the 1860 edition, it concludes on page 21 as follows:
which are, alas, too common.

According to a quotation in The Literary Gazette of June 4, 1859, (see page image here) the pamphlet concludes with this passage, as part of the same paragraph:

My object in publishing will be fully answered if I succeed in drawing attention to some of the causes which have hitherto deterred my fellow-countrymen from settling in India, a country where sobriety, industry, and perseverance, will meet with a far richer reward than in most other lands to which they emigrate. India has hitherto been a preserve, strictly guarded against intrusion, and maintained for the favoured ones of the East India Company. I hope, however, that these days are now gone by, and that the young men of England will go up and possess that land of promise, of which they may read such golden accounts in the Blue Books published by the Committee of the House of Commons, now taking evidence on the subject of the colonisation and settlement of India.

The 1860 edition of this pamphlet has the paragraph end the same way, and adds a further postscript (along with other additional material in the main text). At present I know of no openly accessible online copy of the 1860 edition, though JSTOR has it behind its paywall. -- J. M. O.


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