Book Reviews : Administration and Economic Development in India. Edited by RALPH BRAIBANTI and JOSEPH J. SPENGLER. (Duke University Commonwealth-Studies Center Publication No. 18. Durham : Duke University Press, 1963. Pp. viii, 312. $7.50.)

• Author: H. Arthur Steiner
• Published date: 01 March 1964
• Date: 01 March 1964
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591296401700115
• Subject Matter: Articles

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gains. An analysis of corruption in relation to the exercise of political influence in
the areas described would have added a great deal to the study.
EARL C. SEGREST
Sacramento State College
Administration and Economic Development in India. Edited by RALPH BRAIBANTI
and JOSEPH J. SPENGLER. (Duke University Commonwealth-Studies Center
Publication No. 18. Durham : Duke University Press, 1963. Pp. viii, 312. $7.50.)
Indian administration in transition -
from British to Indian, from old to new,
from underdeveloped to developing -
is the theme of this excellent symposium,
whose breadth of approach is far wider than its title suggests. Of the nine authors,
three are Indian ( Jagota [twice], Sovani and Mitra), and six are Anglo-American
(Braibanti, Hugh Tinker, Park, lB1alenbaum, Tilman and Spengler) - but all are
here united in the scholarly evaluation of the problems that beset Indian administra-
tion in operating successfully and effectively to meet the challenges of the present
day. Braibanti’s introductory article is perhaps unduly optimistic in suggesting that
leading members of the Indian Administrative Service have accommodated them-
selves intellectually to the requirements of a new situation, but it says much about
the historical background of the present Service and its current problems that can be
read with profit. As a counterbalance, the Tinker and Park articles on village and
district administration deal candidly with the many unsolved problems of producing
satisfactory administrative results at levels where results are urgently required, and
help the reader to understand the many shortfalls in successive Indian five-year...