§ Mr. Douglasasked the Secretary of State for India to what extent there has been an increase in recent years in the number of rent receivers and in the number of 1079W landless labourers in Bengal; and to what extent it is estimated that the defects in the land system bear on the maldistribution of food and famine there?
§ Mr. AmeryI have no information of the number of rent receivers and landless labourers respectively in Bengal. None of the appreciations I have received in regard to Bengal has suggested the circumstances indicated as one of the causes contributory to the present trouble.