Author: Damyanti Bhatnagar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Study covers interaction pattern of the bureaucratic personnel in Raipur City, the divisional headquarter of Raipur Division, Madhya Pradesh.
Author: James Lees
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000024644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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This book looks at how the fledgling British East India Company state of the 1760s developed into the mature Anglo-Indian empire of the 19th century. It investigates the bureaucratic culture of early Company administrators, primarily at the district level, and the influence of that culture on the nature and scope of colonial government in India. Drawing on a host of archival material and secondary sources, James Lees details the power relationship between local officials and their superiors at Fort William in Calcutta, and examines the wider implications of that relationship for Indian society. The book brings to the fore the manner in which the Company’s roots in India were established despite its limited military resources and lack of governmental experience. It underlines how the early colonial polity was shaped by European administrators’ attitudes towards personal and corporate reputation, financial gain, and military governance. A thoughtful intervention in understanding the impact of the Company’s government on Indian society, this volume will be of interest to researchers working within South Asian studies, British studies, administrative history, military history, and the history of colonialism.
Author: Barun Kumar Sahu
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 9788122308754
Category : Bureaucracy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: R. D. Sharma
Publisher: Anamika Pub & Distributors
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Contributed articles presented at a regional conference held in 1996.
Author: Har Swarup Singh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788175413764
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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India's governance structure a throwback to the Raj days has to meet the challenges of lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and empowering them' as citizens of a democratic polity. The development and welfare orientation at the normative level in India does not get translated too well in positive terms into actual results of a progressive and just society. More and better plans are constantly drawn up but the bureaucracy's capacity to deliver never worth bragging about so far as development is concerned has noticeably declined over the years. Political masters and the civil service elite often resort to collusion and connivance to use public office for private gain thwarting all good intentions. Corruption and inefficiency combined with callousness in dealing with the public certainly are very serious problems. However we really ought to be looking more closely at fundamental systemic problems in administration. Our basic civil service structure at the all-India level the focus of this book suffers from several maladies including: Lack of specialization and discrimination against specialists; insularity; lack of accountability; unsuitable recruitment and testing procedures; and faulty personnel management. That the country persists in having such administrative setup in this day and age is nothing short of tragic. The situation is so bad that tinkering with the administrative structure even overhauling it will not do much good. The need clearly is to reform the system drastically to re-engineer it so as to have competency technical and otherwise and professionalism accountability and transparency and responsiveness and civility; let us make our civil servants civil and servants of the people. After all aren't these the imperatives of democratic governance within the overall goal of achieving rapid economic and social progress?
Author: Nayanika Mathur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107106974
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Paper Tiger shifts the debate on state failure and opens up new understanding of the workings of the contemporary Indian state.
Author: Akhil Gupta
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351102
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.
Author: Ashish Avikunthak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009082000
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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Bureaucratic Archaeology is a multi-faceted ethnography of quotidian practices of archaeology, bureaucracy and science in postcolonial India, concentrating on the workings of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of the ASI to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge, wielded in the making of political and religious identity and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest courts of India. This book is a rare ethnography of the daily practice of a postcolonial bureaucracy from within rather than from the outside. It meticulously uncovers the social, cultural, political and epistemological ecology of ASI archaeologists to show how postcolonial state assembles and produces knowledge. This is the first book length monograph on the workings of archaeology in a non-western world, which meticulously shows how theory of archaeological practice deviates, transforms and generates knowledge outside the Euro-American epistemological tradition.
Author: Bankey Bihari Misra
Publisher: Delhi : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Covers the period 1858-1947.
Author: Frank de Zwart
Publisher: Leiden University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Why are government workers in India so frequently transferred? The official explanation is that this policy was adopted to prevent corruption and promote efficiency. In reality, according to this thought-provoking new analysis, this policy is a cause of corruption and inefficiency. The author wonders why frequent transfers persist if they defeat their own aims. Using extensive fieldwork data and literature analyses, he discusses politics, history, culture and principals of organisation, and presents a clear and vivid picture of India's political and bureaucratic life.
