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COMMENTS on the relation of industry in India to the country's war effort are made in an article by J. C. Ghosh in the February issue of Current Science. Mr. Ghosh believes that Indian nationalists have a genuine grievance against the Government for lack of vision in dealing with industrial development. During the War of 1914–18, much encouragement was given to many new industries, and, in the post–war years, it was withdrawn on the grounds that only those industries likely to become independent of State support should be supported. Thus the industries commanding an abundant supply of raw material and a ready market for finished products, such as cotton, paper and cement, have gone ahead; unfortunately, this gain has been offset by decreasing prices and shrinking foreign markets for agricultural products. Mr. Ghosh's remedy for this state of affairs—and he thinks it is also a means of assisting defence measures—is to establish as key industries those which are included under the broad heading of metallurgical, engineering and machine tools, chemical and transportation industries.
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War and Industry in India. Nature 148, 47 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148047b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148047b0