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13. See the Survey Report of the Reserve Bank of India, on Foreign Collaboration in India of 1968.

14. The Fifth Lok Sabha Report No. 50 on Committee on Public Undertakings gives a dear picture of the Government's policies on this.

15. It has been argued by a group of Human Geographers that territorial division of labour within the country becomes a determining factor for multinationals corporations to select locations for level II, III or IV activities thereby aggravating unevenness on space. See A. Upietz, "The Structuration of Space', in Camey Hudson & Lewis, ed.. Regions in Crisis, St. Martin's, New York, 1980.

16. Dammette points out to the consequences of the entry of MNCs in a country which starts experiencing some superficial signs of modernisation like rise in internal migration or widening of markets with no real economic revival. See F. Dammette, 'The Regional Framework of Monopoly Exploitation: New Problems and Trends' in J. Carney, et al, ed.. Regions in Crisis, St. Martin's, N.Y. 1980.

17. See A. Friedman, Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism, MacMillan, London, 1977.

18. Human Geographers since seventies have concerned themselves with studying the association between space and its selective use by MNCs in the host countries. See A. Blackboum, 'The Spatial Behaviour of American Firms in Western Europe' in F. Hamilton, ed.. Spatial Perspectives on Industrial Organisation and Decision Making, John Wiley, London, 1974; also see M.J. Taylor, 'Organizational Growth, Spatial Interaction and Location Decision Making', Regional Studies, Vol. 9, U.K. 1975 and L. Hakanson, Towards a Theory of Location and Corporate Grawth' in F. Hamilton and G. Linge, ed.. Spatial Analysis, Industry and the Industrial Environment, Vol. 1, John Wiley, London, 1979. All of them have analysed spatial operation and dynamics of single firms in different countries.

19. See J. Rees, 'On the Spatial Spread and Oligopolistic Behaviour of Large Rubber Companies', Ceoforum, Vol. 9, 1978 and H.D. Watts, The Large industrial Enterprises: Some Spatial Perspectives, Croom Helm, London, 1980. Watts has elaborated the impact of large corporations on the spatial economic structure.

20. See C. Palloix, The Internationalization of Capital and the Circuit of Social Capital' in H. Radice, ed.. International firms and Modem Imperialism, Penguin, 1975; also see E. Mandel, Late Capitalism, Verso, London, 1975 and D. Harvey, The Limits to Capital, Basil Blackwell, London, 1982. Harvey has written an invaluable piece on the mobility of capital and its geographical implications in Chapter 12, pp. 373-411.

21. See S. Banerjee-Guha, 'Colonialism, Neo-colonialism and Regional Disparity in India', Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkings University, Baltimore, USA, 1985; S. Banerjee-Guha & N. Dasgupta, The Geography of Socio-economic Well-being in Maharashtra and West Bengal' in A.B. Mukherjee and A. Ahmed eds., India: Culture Society and Economy, Inter4ndia Publications, New Delhi, 1985; S. Banerjee-Guha and N. Dasgupta, 'Flow of Factors and Growth of Patterns', Annals, NAGI, New Delhi (forthcoming).

22. See David Harvey, Ibid.

23. See B. Chattopadhyay and M. Raza, 'Regional Development: Analytical Framework Indicators', Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 7,1975, pp. 75-88.



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