Madhusudan_Das

180 Madhusudan Das:
confused with the working class nor mass movements to be identified
with social movements based on the working class. It implies that "under
certain conditions any or all classes may give rise to masses, in the sense
of large numbers of people who are not integrated into any broad social
groupings or classes." 32 Mr. Das dominated over such a social structure
for a long period. He endured such a situation, perhaps because of his
ego-centric nature. True even in the non-economic fields he had to face a
lot of difficulties because again of the domination of 'ego'. "The egooriented
approach hinders the ability to bring and hold together an able
staff, to delegate authority to inspire loyality to handle successfully
relations with labour and public and a host of managerial talents." 33
Entrepreneurs are economic decision-makers and industrial entrepreneurs
must look for ahead into future with the time horizon high. 34 Mr. Das
because of his multi-dimensional behaviour. 35 advancing age.
preoccupation in multiple 'roles' and the particularistic temperament with
the mental make up of a lawyer not waiting long for decisions against the
background of the then prevailing value system could not be adequately
up for the arduous task of engineering the Industrial Revolution in the
State : nonemeless he had abiding faith in it. He dedicated himself to
furrow and fertilize a frozen society to facilitate the seeds of awareness
for industrial civilization to grow. According to Frankel:
One of the fundamental prerequisites of the process of
civilization, is a certain state of awareness suited to the
environment and passing circumstances in which men and society
find themselves. It is an aptitude and not only a matter of social
will it rests on habit patterns of thought, perception and action ;
it involves the ability to take account of an ever widening circle
of needs, of feeling and experiencing the relations and
interdependence of the needs of the self and the needs of others. 36
Mc Clelland propounds the theory that the greater the mental
virus of n Ach (need for achievement) in the nation, the quicker and
greater will be the economic growth 37 and countries where stories told to
children have a high achievement content show a higher rate of progress
: and sometimes n Ach levels are clearly the result of local history.- If we
accept this view then we have to absolve Mr. Das from his responsibility
of not being fully adequate for industrial entrepreneurship. He as a child
learnt how his great grandmother immolated as a Sati, this his grandmother
in a dramatic way as aften as possible described; his mother spared no