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2'54 RATIONALIZATION IN INDIAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
of soda compounds must possess facilities in regard to.
the, use of sulphuric acid, hydrogen,chlorine, ammonia.
,etc. All these chemicals will have to be regarded in,
business~m6rphology as 'bye products or allies and_
market comrades of one another in. the economic sense.
Prices can be brought down to the desirable level only iF
a II community of interests" 'were to h~dle the manufacture
of these and other allied chemicals as parts of oneand
the same organization, a common system of market-·
able goods. There is no place fol' .. cottage industry ",
in the chemical world. It is because of the relative·
absence of a noteworthy background of affiliation in
associated enterprises that the few chemical industries
tha~ haye become promin,ent in India during and since the·
War exhibit the condition of slow and halting progress.
The raw materials for chemical industries, both.
vegetable and mineral, are of course plentiful in the .
. different economic regions of India. The number of
chemical workers and engineers has also been on,
the increase during the last two decades. It would be.
sheer superstition to believe, as is the custom to imagine
both in India and abroad~ that the skill and qualifications.
of theinteilectual hands in the'chemical and pharmaceutical
works of Europe and America are generally superior
t~'ihose o{~h~ young m~Jl who come out of t~e Univ~r",
sities ~nd technical colleges of India. India~ graduates;
of chemistry and engineering, are competent' e~ough to,·
be placed in charge of factories aod industrial research,
laboratories. 23 They may perhap's need for some time, the
~ "23' . Sa~kar: Cdmparatille Pedagogics in relation to' Public Finance ".ntF
National Wealth (Calcutta, 1929), pp. 61.73; 'Das technische Studium ill­
Indien', (Bayerische Indusfrie-und HandelBzeifung, Munich, 9 Dec, 1930) ..