Original Second World War pictorial poster map, India In War And Peace, published by the British Ministry of Information in about 1942.

The map features illustrations of India’s agricultural and industrial output, depicted within a decorative border. At the base, a description declares: Before the war India was already one of the eight leading industrial countries of the world. Indian capital and Indian technical skill have helped to develop still further the country's industries since war began. To-day, instead of a total of six hundred factories she has fifteen hundred engineering shops on war supplies alone – including a hundred works making machine tools, previously all imported. Sixty per cent of her medical supplies are made at home and her heavy chemical industries are expanding fast. India’s cotton mills to-day produce three times more than in 1918.

The poster was produced as part of the British government’s propaganda campaign to illustrate how the ‘Empire’ was supporting the war effort in a shared, global, endeavour.

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