Book Reviews : The Farm Bureau and the New Deal. By CHRISTIANA McFADYEN CAMPBELL. (Ur bana: University of Illinois Press, 1962. Pp. viii, 215. $4.75.)

• Published date: 01 March 1964
• Date: 01 March 1964
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296401700116
• Author: Charles G. Mayo
• 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.

Sacramento

State

College

EARL

C.

SEGREST

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

plans.

&dquo;Administration,&dquo;

here,

is

closely

linked

to

the

widest

range

of

social,

political,

economic,

and

technical

factors

affecting

the

management

of

Indian

affairs.

The

problems

of

leadership,

the

role

of

caste,

the

educational

and

economic

imbalances,

and

the

chronic

cultural

gap

between

the

leaders

and

the

led

are

so

explained

and

developed

as

to

afford

the

reader

a

broad

introduction

to

contemporary

Indian

society

and

public

life.

Even

Spengler’s

seeming

anachronism

of

a

purely

historical

study

of

&dquo;Arthasastra

Economics&dquo;

can

be

useful

material

for

appreciating

Sovani’s

strictures

concerning

the

negative

aspects

of

Indian

nationalism.

Sovani

emphasizes

that

traditional

Hindu

society

has

not

been

rejuvenated,

but

has

&dquo;in

fact ...

bent the

nationalist

movement

in

its

own

direction

...&dquo;

so

that

the

&dquo;social

content

of

positive

nationalism&dquo;

remains

the

&dquo;task

facing

the

present

national

leadership.&dquo;

In

a

sense,

he

has

sounded

the

theme

to

which

all

the

contributors

have

responded,

and

in

the

process

they

have

supplied

us

with

one

of

the

best

evaluations

of

the

total

panorama

of

Indian

politics

and

society.

H.

ARTHUR

STEINER

University

of

California,

Los

Angeles

The

Farm

Bureau

and

the

New

Deal.

By

CHRISTIANA

McFADYEN

CAMPBELL.

(Ur-

bana:

University

of

Illinois

Press,

1962.

Pp. viii, 215.

$4.75.)

The

author,

an

historian,

presents

an

analysis

of

the

relationship

between

the

American

Farm

Bureau

Federation

and

the

New

Deal

during

the

period

1933-40.