India's Political Administrators, 1919-1983This Original Study Examines How The British Ruled India And Why The Colonial Administrative Tradition Is Still Prevalent There In The 1980S. It Breaks With The Conventional Historiography Of Twentieth-Century India, Whereby Historians Tend To Stop At Independence, And Social Scientists To Start There, And Seeks To Demonstrate The Continuities Across 1947 And The Consequences Of That Continuity For The Modern Indian State. The Focus Is Primarily On The Indian Civil Service And Its Successor, The Indian Administrative Service, And The Book Draws On The Autobiographical Reminiscences Of The Men And Women Who Served In Them As Well As On Interview Materials And Unpublished Papers. |
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Introduction I | 16 |
Finding and shaping ICS successors | 83 |
Political support in the 1940s | 121 |
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