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Indian Administration: Retrospect and Prospect is a textbook with a difference. Prepared mainly for the benefit of students of Public Administration, it includes a wide range of materials, scattered in learned journals, reports of government commissions and committees and experiences of the Indian civil servants in the field. It is a comprehensive compendium that not only sums up the events of the past, but also suggests workable guidelines for the future administration of the country.  The challenges of democracy, development, information technology and liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation are being accommodated in the developing structures and changing processes of Indian Public Administration. The perceptive students of the discipline can explore the impact of legacies of the past, the maladies that ail the present and the new public management patterns that are emerging for the future in these pages. About The Author P.D. Sharma has been the Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He took his MPA and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA and served as a Visiting Professor of Non-Western Studies at Lineberger Centre, North Carolina, USA. Several fellowships, awards and honours have been conferred upon him by national and international organisations for his outstanding research contributions in the fields of Police Administration and Public Administration. An author of dozens of highly acclaimed books and innumerable research papers published in India and abroad, Dr. Sharma has been a consultant and visiting faculty of various prestigious management institutes of the country.  B.M. Sharma has been the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. Presently, he is Member Syndicate (Executive Council), Director, Social Sciences Research Centre, University of Rajasthan and Member, Executive Council of Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. He has authored more than a dozen books and over hundred research papers and articles published in national and international journals. Govind Vallabh Pant, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel and B.R. Ambedkar Awards have been conferred upon him by the Government of India and the Government of Madhya Pradesh for his writings. His areas of specialization are Public Administration, Police Administration, Indian Government and Politics, and Panchayati Raj Institutions.