Herein would be
found the origins of the arts and crafts guilds and the Garden
Cities, the idea underlying all these being to inaugurate a
reign of Socialism and Co-operation, eradicating the entirely
unequal distribution of wealth amongst producers and consumers.
India has always been a country of small tenantry, and has
thereby escaped many of the evils the western Nations have
experienced owing to the concentration of wealth in a few
hands. The communistic sense in our midst, and the fundamental
tenets of our family life, have checked such concentration of
capital. This has been the cause for the non-development of
factory industries on a large scale.
The need for these changes--to which England is returning, after full
experience of the miseries of life in manufacturing towns--is pressing.
Addressing an English audience, G.K. Gokhale summed up the general state
of India as follows:
Your average annual income has been estimated at about L42 per
head.
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