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There is no dearth of publications on the personality and achievements of the different Prime Ministers in the shape of biographies. But there was no authentic work on the office of the Prime Minister of India, the permanent institution which stands always there while the Prime Ministers come and go. The office of the Prime Minister came into being in 1950 on the enforcement of the Indian Constitution after its completion by the Constituent Assembly of India. This most important part of the Constitution was unwittingly left untouched by the scholars of Political Science. The evolution of this continuous tide somehow or other escaped the eyes of the writers. The beads were there but no one took the job of piercing them into a string of rosary. I felt the void and dared take up this challenging task and had to spend ten years of hard labour to rearrange the scattered material lying at different places. An attempt has been made to light the full significance of the associated aspects of the political institutions which has come before us a soul of the Indian Constitutional body. I have tried my best to interweave lucidity, simplicity and intellegibility into a coherent whole. An endeavour has been made to take the sting of boredom out of this serious subject by inserting the pleasant and humorous incidents quite relevant to the whole story. About the Author Jagdish Chandra Sharma was born in Lahore (now in Pakistan, then called The Paris of India). He migrated to India in 1947 as a penniless refugee after the Partition of India. He received his M.A. degree in Political Science in 1953. M.A. in English in 1955 from the Punjab University, Chandigarh. He served as a lecturer in Political Science at Guru Ram Rai College, Nahan (H.P.) (now Government College) from 1956 to 1962; head of the Political Science Department at D.A.V. College, Ambala from 1963 to 1968; head of the Post- Graduate Department of Political Science at Dayanand (Evening) College, Hissar, from 1968 to 1972; Principal Mewat Degree College, Nagina (now Government College) from 1972 to 1975; Assistant Chief Editor, Section, Encyclopeadia of Indian Literature, National Sahitya Academy, New Delhi from 1975 to 1979; Editor, The Lions International, Delhi Branch; Chief Consultant, Chandra Export Agencies , New Delhi. He also contributed from time to time to Caravan; IIIustrated Weekly of India, Bombay; Organisor, Delhi His publications; Gandhi The Humanist (1964); Nehru The Humanist (1965); The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru 1966); Gandhi and Nehru (1966). He also contributed short stories in Urdu in Pasbaan an Urdu weekly published from Chandigarh.