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CHAPTER X
THE POTENTIALITIES OF RUSSO-INDIAN
TRADE RELATIONS
The subject of the potentialities of Russo-Indian trade
relations would bear a more lengthy exposition than I can
possibly give from my own personal research and experience
in India. Therefore a complete and exhaustive treatise is
not intended, but I propose rather to draw broad outlines
upon the subject. Another reservation is necessary in so
far as the war and the Revolution in Russia brought about
quite exceptional conditions of life which do not affect the
potentialities of Indo-Russian relations. In the future,
when peace is restored, national trade will be carried on
under normal conditions. Mention is therefore not made
of the special difficulties which have arisen in Russia and
which are, of course, a great drawback to trade and commerce.
Up to the present these relations were in their infancy, and
were kept within very narrow limits. The considerable
growth of the exportation of Indian and Ceylon tea into
Russia—which is bound to follow an upward course in the
future—is almost the only instance of the development of
Indo-Russian trade relations worth mentioning ; but it is
known that such development has been retarded by a series
of adverse circumstances which in all probability will be
eliminated in the future, much to the mutual advantage of
both countries.
Two such colossal economic units as Russia and India
(with a thriving population of 180 and 330 million souls
respectively), endowed with most favourable climatic
conditions, and a fertile soil containing those mineral
resources which are essential for industry and manufacture,
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