This view of peasant life in Sindh shows the province’s largely agriculture-based economy that was dependent on the Indus River and the canal-based irrigation system introduced by the British. In his memoir Bremner described Sindh as "nothing more than a lonely desert... [however] since the inauguration of irrigation throughout the land it has become one of the richest, yielding harvests which compete in production with other provinces... another example of what the British Raj has done for the good of the country".