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Excerpt from Note on the Question of Prohibiting the Export of Food During Famine
In the above I have incidentally met the argu ment that if we had prohibited the export of Bengal rice our colonies must have been starved - they would have gone to Burmah, and got there the rice which the Government has now taken. They would not have gone to Saigon for the rice which our Govern ment has procured there, because it has cost much dearer. In truth, the Saigon production is small compared to the Indian, and it has no chance against Burmah rice in the markets west of Singapore?
Only in case of prohibition of export from Burmah also, would our colonies have gone to Saigon and California.
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