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Title: The conditions of success in emigration, with the approximate cost of living in relation to wages in the British colonies and India: a paper read at the Conference at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, on the 14th of July, 1886

Author: Leone Levi

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 56

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 56

Average Monthly District Wages of Skilled and Unskilled Labour in British India, half-year ending 31st dec., 1885

Able-bodied Syce or Common Mason, Agricultural Labourer. Horse Keeper. Carpenter or Blacksmith. RS. A. P. RS. A. P. RS. A. P. Madris 5 0 0 5 8 0 13 9 6 Bombay II 0 0 .. 12 8 0 32 to 45 Calcutta 12 0 0 7 0 0 15 0 0 Surat 7 to 8—10 tO 12 S. 12 10 25 Cawnpore 3 to 4 0 0 xi:, to x5 0 0 Lucknow4 0 0 400 to 0 0 Delhi 55 t: 0 0 .... 6 0 0 .. 13 5 0 Nagpur 6 0 0 12 0 0 Dacca .... 6 to 7 0 0 5 07 0 0 8 to 20 0 0 Indere .... 6 0 0 6 to 7 0 0 .. 15 0 0 Jeypore; 8 0 0 0 5 to 6 0 0 Stow 0 0 Mysore 6 0 0 15 0 0 Secunderabad 5 tO 7 0 0 5 to 7 0 0 13 tO /9 0 0 Rangoon 15 0 0 12 C 30 0 0 - 6'7 6'8 In

Average Monthly District Wages of Skilled and Unskilled Labour in British India, half-year ending 31st dec., 1885.