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Excerpt from The Administration of the Marquis of Lansdowne: As Viceroy and Governor-General of India, 1888-1894
A guiding principle of Lord Lansdowne's internal policy was the promotion of a systematic enquiry into the facts and circumstances of the Empire. He realized as keenly as any of his predecessors that a knowledge of the country and its people is the foundation of all sound administration. The Imperial Census of India for 1891, in which he took a personal interest, furnished a mass of information regarding the Indian population, their religious and social customs, and the economic conditions under which they live, the importance of which, to the man of science and the administrator, it would be difficult to exaggerate. A careful consideration of the statistical data which have been gathered with so much labour leads to the conclusion that the soil of India, as a whole, still suffices for the wants of the population, and that the present rate of increase does not press too heavily upon the means of subsistence.
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