78 SOCIAL SCIENTIST lag far behind the growth in the labour force, and on the other hand, the education system is geared to the needs of alien advanced economies. Thus while hundreds of villages do not even have primary health facilities, around 15,000 doctors emigrated from India in 1975'. Though the ^Banyan Tree* docs not raise all these questions, it is the first book of its kind which gives such elaborate details about the present position of Indian emigrants the world over. tR.Aj'U IKLlTKlAl^ i A quotation from Rabindranath Tagore given on the title page of the book reads: "To study a banyan tree, you not only must know its main stem in its own soil, but also must trace the growth of its greatness in the further soil...The civilization of India, like the banyan tree, has shed its beneficent shade away from its own birthplace../' a See, for example, Dilip Hiro, White British, Black British, Penguin, Middlesex 1973> and Robert Moore, Racism and Black Resistance in Britain, Pluto Press, London, 1975. < Such a hope seems to underlie for instance, the constitution by the Government of Kerala, of the Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants Limited, whose main objective include availing of the overseas employment opportunities, and mobilisation of financial capital from emigrants. ^ Leonard Bloom, The Social Psychologic/Race Relations, George Alien and Unwin Limited, London, 1971, Chapter 1. 5 Roger Jeffrey. "Migration of Doctors from India", Economic and Political Weekly, March 27,1976.