India Wins Freedom - pg. 85

The Government had also decided that, in case of a Japanese attack, something like the scorched earth policy must be followed. They had also prepared measures for the blowing up of important bridges and the destruction of factories and industrial installations in order to deny them to the Japanese. Plans for the destruction of the Iron and Steel Factory at Jamshedpur [which was owned by the Tata Company] had somehow become known and there was great anxiety and unrest in the whole area.