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The advent of the Janata Party was not foreseen when Bepin Behari publi­shed his book, but the Party’s emphasis since it came to power on what can be identified as a Gandhian approach to the problem of rural poverty in India makes the book topical. He quotes Gandhi: ‘I would favour the use of the most elabo­rate machinery, if thereby India’s paupe­rism and resulting idleness can be avoid­ed. I have suggested hand-spinning as the only ready means of driving away penury and making famine of work and wealth impossible.’ ‘What I object to is the craze for machinery, not machinery as such.’