The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s10.47

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Looking at the future prospects of the Konkan it must be said that the Northern Konkan at present suffers in its inland parts from a want of population and capital, but the whole of it may in time be as flourishing as the coast villages are now. The Southern Konkan is overpopulated, and nothing can make any but a small part of it fertile, nor does it seem likely that it will be ever distinguished by manufactures, or that mineral wealth will be developed. But it holds a race of men who in the last century conquered nearly the whole of India, and who show no signs of degeneration, and no one can for a moment suppose that the progress of education and science will leave the country of the most intelligent and industrious of Indian races unknown and unimproved.