A CRITICAL STUDY OF RATIONALIZATION IN PRE AND POST INDEPENDENT INDIA

Rationalization is an attempt to change a pre-existing adhoc workflow into one based on a set of published rules. The history of workflow can be traced back to the works of Frederick Taylor and Henry Gantt, although the term was not in use during their lifetime. The two launched the study of the deliberate, rational orientation of work, primarily in the context of manufacturing. This gave rise to time and motion studies. Later, the invention of the typewriter and copier helped spread the rational organization of labor from the manufacturing shop floor to the office. Filing systems and other sophisticated systems for managing physical information flow evolved. Several events likely contributed to the development of formalized information workflows. The present study is a critical approach to rationalization and how it leads to dissociation with religious values and discusses the same in the contest of pre and post independent India and the singularity of our country with religious plurality which leads to the double whammy of secularism and introduction of Marxian thought values which was the vim of the age.