ABSTRACT
India, with a land area of some 3,268,090 square kilometres, is the seventh largest country in the world, and her estimated population in May 1969 was 524 millions. The advertisement goes on to state that, after twenty years of hard and earnest efforts to improve the people’s standard of living, they had not in fact gone far from where they had started. The Himalayan rivers are snow-fed, flow continuously throughout the year, and flood during the monsoon season; the Deccan rivers are rain-fed and fluctuate in volume; the coastal rivers are short in length and supply limited catchment areas; and, finally, there are the rivers of the inland drainage basin, which drain towards individual basins or salt lakes, or are lost in the sands, having no outlet to sea. India is rich in mineral and power resources, and she has begun to exploit those resources both in terms of her internal expansion and industrialization and in terms of international trade.
