The Economy of Permanence: A Quest for a Social Order Based on Non-violence (स्थायी अर्थतन्त्र)

Economy of Permanence
in this that they try to make the creations of others their own by slight modi-
fication which however, are not distinctive enough to lay claim to originality.
"Best foreign missionary style"
Again the present day Japanese afford us a good example of those who attempt
to adopt the lead given by others' originality. What they had taken previously
from the West they have acclimatised to their land. For instance, they had
taken over large scale production from the West and split the unwieldy units of
centralized factories into many small cottage industries, assembling the various
parts when finished, in a central workshop. To give one example, in England
the bicycle is produced in its entirety by single plants like that of the B. S. A.
Company. But Japan manufactures similar goods by organizing cottage workers
who are supplied with tools and materials. Some of them produce only spokes,
others only rims and so on. All these separate parts are brought to the Central
Assembling, work-shop which puts out complete useable machines.
Some persons in our country, who are not so much
under western influence as those of the House of
Imitation, attempt to adopt western modes-say in
clothes-with grotesque results. A Babu may put on
an open coat but he may omit, with commendable
rationality in this hot climate, the irksome, stiff
starched collar and the troublesome, purposeless
extra tie. He may wear his shirt outside the
trousers thinking it makes for coolness, and on his
Imperfect adaptation
socksless feet he may use the only Indian chappal
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