الإنجليزية 1444
Beyond The Trappings of Office
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ISBN رقم:
9789391125585
مؤلف المقدمة:
B.N. Goswamy
الناشر:
Niyogi Books
الصفحات:
470
الوزن:
653 g
أبعاد المنتج:
14 x 21٫6 x 24 cm
غلاف الكتاب:
غلاف کرتونی
Thema:
- Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences
- Public administration / Public policy
Travel with the author, a former civil servant, on a fascinating journey from a childhood spent in the infancy of free India, growing up in a former princely state, to traipsing into the Indian Administrative Service with childlike optimism. Enjoy a renaissance in the University of Cambridge, and a mellow cadence of a fruitful life in a modern Indian city, juxtaposed with a view of the transforming rural economy in Punjab, a state at the heart of India’s Green Revolution. In Beyond the Trappings of Office the author offers colourful vignettes of events behind the drab doors of officialdom. He depicts the successes and failures of governments and individual protagonists in attaining power and sustaining it. While being part of the system, he chose not to succumb to the temporal power that goes with it. He describes members of the community of bureaucrats as well as politicians, and their foibles, with a gentle, disarming irony.
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