Book Reviews : Britain and India: Requiem for Empire. By MAURICE and TAYA ZINKIN. (Balti more: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. Pp. 191. $5.00.)

• Date: 01 December 1964
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296401700470
• Published date: 01 December 1964
• Author: M. Judd Harmon
• Subject Matter: Articles

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of the students and recent college graduates surveyed had ever seriously considered
going into city employment. It is with such findings as these that the sorry state of
local governmental service is spelled out and the dilemma of municipal personnel
systems is made clear.
Professional Personnel for the City of New York is definitely not a book for the
average political scientist or layman to read with great care. It is a book for personnel
specialists and people deeply involved in New York City government. However, it is
worth scanning by anyone interested in urban affairs. It does add something to our
knowledge of governmental problems and does present many recommendations
worth thinking about and some worth acting upon. And it is probably the most
comprehensive and systematic treatment of a municipal personnel system yet pub-
lished and a long step forward from the more general and less well-researched Gov-
ernmental Manpower for Tomorrow’s Cities.
CHARLES PATTERSON
Lehigh University
Britain and India: Requiem for Empire. By MAURICE and TAYA ZINKIN. (Balti-
more: The
Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. Pp. 191. $5.00.)
Britain and India is an account of the dissolving of the colonial ties between
those two countries and of the impact of that highly important event in history upon
each of them and the world. Some may object to the authors rather obvious British
viewpoint. In fact the Zinkins’ argument is impressive.
Britain found herself, somewhat to her surprise according to the authors, in pos-
session of India at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. The Indian commitment then
necessitated the expansion of Britain’s colonial holdings. The authors argue that
Britain’s colonial activities in Africa, the Far East, and the Middle East are mainly
attributable to this involvement. With Indian independence, therefore, the disinte-
gration of the Empire was inevitable, a fact which the British have been slow to com-
prehend and acknowledge. Failure to reappraise her foreign...