A Study of the Diet of the Bengali Hindus and Their Nutrition

12" fl Dinajpore and Barasat families belonge?^e the agricultural class. They worked ?f* al land themselves and often employed adait1 labour as well. Practically all of them ,y dependent to a large extent on the land to sU^jjer their needs. Existence appeared to be hand to mouth, and little money was han ^ At Barasat, a certain amount of barter eX,lScts. fish, etc., being exchanged for soil pi'0(j From the local conditions it appeared tha ^ ̂ families under observation at Dinajpore QS\. poorer than those at Barasat, and this sUP[^ed tion was later on verified by the calcu' ^ analytical figures of their respective seemed however that more could have made of the ground, had they possessed the and energy to work it, and worked harder-