Abstract
This article reviews 11 titles published on Indian bureaucracy between 1971 and 1975, covering the following five themes: 1) background, attitudes, values, and motives of senior civil servants, 2) their reaction to specific situations, 3) relation between the politicians and the administrators, 4) district organization, and 5) formulation of developmental policies.
The books reviewed here are based on empirical or field studies or those which have used primary data for analysis. Only those books that have been sent for review by the publishers on the request of the editors have been included.
The review excludes the experiences of civil servants and the reports of committees and commissions, which are so important and numerous and large that each would require a separate review.
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