--- title: India (pictorial map of products and industries) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-india-pictorial-industry-map-1939/ description: A decorated pictorial map of the Indian subcontinent labels crops, minerals and industries by region, with a text panel calling India one of the eight section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. India (pictorial map of products and industries) [![India, 1939 UK poster: A decorated pictorial map of the Indian subcontinent labels crops, minerals and industries by region](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-india-pictorial-industry-map-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-india-pictorial-industry-map-1939.jpg) # India (pictorial map of products and industries) A decorated pictorial map of the Indian subcontinent labels crops, minerals and industries by region, with a text panel calling India one of the eight leading industrial countries and the largest producer of jute, sugar-cane and mica. Only output and resources are shown; the map lists no population, wages, famine, trade or political status, so the selection of facts favours the issuer's picture of India under British rule. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` INDIA MILES 0 50 100 150 200 300 400 500 Although agriculture is the chief occupation, India is one of the eight leading industrial countries of the world. Textiles and iron and steel are the most important Indian industries; cement, heavy chemicals, soap, sugar, glass, and shipbuilding are among those more recently developed. India is the world's largest producer of jute, sugar-cane, and mica, and has the world's largest reserves of high-grade iron ore and the world's largest cattle population. India ranks second in production of tea, cotton, tobacco, and manganese. Printed in England by Alf Cooke Ltd., Leeds and London. S1-9002. Distributed by BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, an Agency of the British Government, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. [map labels omitted: place names, products and industries in banners] ``` [← Immunisation Is Simple, Safe & Free](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-immunisation-simple-safe-free-1939/) [Is There Anything 'Up the Spout'? Look First, Prevent Accidents →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-is-there-anything-up-the-spout-games-1939/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). 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Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). 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