Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out"

"Darkest India" by Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker serves as an addition to General Booth's work, revealing the harsh realities of late 19th-century India and the desperate need for change. It highlights the immense poverty and injustice faced by a huge segment of the Indian population, calling them the "submerged tenth," who live in terrible conditions. The book starts by comparing the suffering in India to that of a dark jungle, presenting troubling facts about widespread hunger and poverty. It then offers a path forward, suggesting ways to rebuild the system and provide social programs to raise the lives of those in despair, appealing to people to work together to fix society's failures.