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power derived from other sources. India has great 

 stores of coal which are now being developed and 

 by the use of which powerful steam-engines can be 

 driven and the labour of the people can be supple- 

 mented by the energy of this mineral fuel. 



In addition to coal-power, India has great water- 

 power. There is an enormous amount of water- 

 power in India which may be utilised. Some of 

 it is now being utilised in the neighbourhood of 

 Bombay as well as in other places ; 60,000 horse- 

 power is now being utilised in the mills of Bombay, 

 which is derived from the fall of water on the Western 

 Ghats, the mountains that line the Indian coast 

 from Bombay southwards. If we take the mountains 

 of the Western Ghats and the Himalaya Mountains 

 and some other mountains without counting those 

 of Burmah, we have a length of 3,000 miles of 

 mountains. Those which are in the Himalayas 

 might be written down as having a width of not less 

 than 100 miles upon which there is a heavy rain- 

 fall every year, and they rise up to great altitudes. 

 It is easy to conceive what an enormous power 

 there is in this falling water. One cubic foot of 

 water falling 1,000 feet might generate two horse- 

 power if it fell in one minute. If we assume a rain- 

 fall of 48 inches or 4 feet, and assume that one-half 

 of that rainfall was utilised for power purposes, and 

 take an area of i square mile, the following sum 

 shows that we should get by the fall of the water 

 on that i square mile down a height of 1,000 feet 

 a power of 500 horse-power, for 10 hours a day for 



