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About the Book

This edition of Indian Administration is revised, updated and a comprehensive treatise on Indian administration today. It is not only a comprehensive compendium of the past events, but also suggests workable guidelines for the future administration of the country. The challenges of democracy, development, information technology and liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation are being accommodated in the developing structures and changing processes of Indian Public Administration in fourteen chapters. Each chapter has been redesigned according to the need of students as well as teachers. The perceptive students of the discipline can explore the impact of legacies of the past, the maladies that ail the present and the new public management patterns that are emerging for the future in these two volumes. This book would be an invaluable asset for the Graduate and Post-graduate students and teachers as well as Civil Services and NET aspirants.    

About the Authors

H.P. Chattopadhyay is a well-known scholar and teacher of political science who taught at several Colleges under Calcutta University, Kolkata. A keen scholar, Dr. Chattopadhyay has many books to his credit. His work Ethnic Composition and Crisis in South Asia is one of the widely acclaimed publications. In addition, he has published more than 100 research papers and articles in reputed national and international journals and also presented papers in national and international seminars and conferences. Presently, he lives a retired life and devotes his time in editing and writing.

Dr. Indu Baghel is teaching political science and public administration in the University of Delhi. She visited Portugal for her doctoral work on “Local Administration in Angola during the Portuguese Colonial Rule” under the joint fellowship of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India) and University of Delhi. Her special areas of research include governance, citizenship, democracy, corporate ethics and social responsibility of business. She has contributed 20 research papers and articles in reputed national and international journals and also presented papers in national and international seminars and conferences.