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.