NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS 63 country's territorial integrity and sovereignty. Here we find a definite attempt to misrepresent facts, and serious academics must take note of it. However, in spite of reasserting the validity of Nehru's approach as an article of faith, the Minister was forced to admit the failure of the Government's policy of protective discrimination, which, in his words, has still left the bulk of the tribal population in abject proverty and as a victim of backwardness and exploitation. It seems that we have reached a plateau and further intensification of effort along the old lines will provide only diminishing returns. Obviously the 'viability' of Nehru's wisdom evaporates when faced with concrete problems. Another bogey that the Minister chose to introduce was that of'industrialisation'. He informed us that in the last twenty five years the country has taken rapid strides towards industrialisation. Several major industries have been set up in tribal areas, more are likely to come in the near future. In the larger national interest, this is necessary. However, the plans of industrialisation rarely considered the human problems of the uprooted tribal people, nor did they envisage any systematic effort at rehabilitating them. It is unfortunate that some of the non-tribals who entered the industrial belts in tribal areas played a role which brought no credit to Indian culture and civilisation and often treated the tribals as something less than human. This analysis leaves much to be desired. Even without going into the question of 'rapid strides' which we know only too well that Indian industry is not making, when the percentage of people below the poverty line has increased from 50 to 70 in the past twenty five years. We are forced to point out that industrilisation is of two distinct kinds: socialist and capitalist. The Congress party in its determination to pursue the capitalist path would have us believe that there is no alternative. In a sense they are correct. Under Congress leadership, in fact, the only alternative is the well-worn path of obsolete capitalist development where the human being is sacrificed at the altars of private property and maximum profit. Also, it is obvious that our rapid strides compare most unfavourably with the progress of our neighbour, China, who started off even more backward than us in 1949. Further, how can the Congress deal with these 'non-tribals' who enter tribal areas and exploit tribals, when they are men like Goenka of Duncan Brothers (who recently gave Rs 5 lakhs for the printing of Congress election posters), exploiters of tribal tea garden labour, which for some odd reason has not been declared scheduled and is therefore a helpless victim of such Congress supporters. Indeed, having friends like these, who needs enemies ? Even when erforms are planned, the same blindspot persists. The Minister, in the