Now or Never?

A N explora t ion was made, o n the in i t i a t ive of Professor P C Mahalanobis . F R S, of possible appl icat ions of geographical techniques to problems of nat ional p lanning; in I n d i a . In pa r t i cu l a r a p i l o t project in regional survey fo r p lanning, purposes was car r ied out in Mysore State, w i th the col labora t ion of I n d i a n geographers, statisticians, and economists as we l l as the help of many officials and others. The ma in results of this survey are now in the press at the Ins t i tu t e ; some general comment, however, was of fered by the wr i t e r and his w i f e in "'The Regional Concept and Na* t ional Development" in the Economic Weekly A n n u a l fo r January 1958, w h i l e the prose but not the visual mater ia l of a lecture given by the author* in var ious cities in I n d i a jus t before leaving fo r U K was publ ished in the Bombay Geographica l Magazine V o l V I V I I , N o 1 for September 1959.