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 RELATING TO INDIA 485 districts and existing larse-seale industries each 'receive two or three pages of discussion which will be most valuable to economic students. The foliowin 8 chapter describes the raw materials available,agricultural produce, minerale, and the products of forests and fisheries. We next find discussions of the industrial deficiencies of Xndls and of the relation of industries to agriculture. Chapter I considers all the various 8curees of power and advocates a hydrographic survey bein 8 undertaken by Government. Chapter XI treats, perhaps rather too briefly, the share taken By Indians hitherto in the industrial development of the country; and the following chapter relates the industrial policy of Govern- ment in recent years. The foregoing is all character; but in the more or next few less of an introdnetory ohspiers we get to the details of the relations between Government and industrial progress. In Chapters IX and X we have discussion of the existing organization of scientific and technics! services and provision for researeh work, and for industrial and technical education. The system of commercial and indus- trial intelligence is then. eritieized and some made; and then we come to the Government stores. The advantage of eentralising the stores in India is fully recognized and it is suggested that a general purchasing department under a Controller General of Stores with his head-quarters at Calcutta be established. It is proposed that all indents for stores required by pro- vineial offleers should eome through the local Director of Supplies, who would first examine the indents, and arrange for local purchase and inspection At present the iuspeetion of stores a great eonvenienee to the Publie proposals are purehase of purehase o!. India and is au indueement to the purehasing of stores abroad. There is no reason why efiieient inspection by experts of purchases made in India should not be organiz.ed as recommended by the (ommission. We have next a short ehapter on 'land acquisition, and a useful proposal that under eertain circumstances Government should eompulsorily sequ/re land on behalf of an industrial eoneern. Chapter XIV on the technical assistance to industries by Government is of exceptional luterest. Here ws find a ally/siGn of industries into: (1) cottage industries, where this is possible. at the India Offlee is Works Department in