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Product Description This is a new edition of a political study of Indian administrators in the twentieth century. The focus is primarily on the Indian Civil Service and its successor, the Indian Administrative Service. The book examines how the British ruled India and why the colonial administrative structuresthey initiated are still prevalent in India today. Studying the Indian Civil Service and its successor, the Indian Administrative Service, and drawing on reminiscences of the men and women who served in them as well as previously unpublished documents, Potter explains how state forms are reproducedthrough time despite political changes in their environment. Review "A lucid, persuasive and highly readable account of a complex topic.....Essential reading for all who are interested in the historical origins of contemporary India and public administration generally."--Pacific Affairs"Superb....It contains plenty of substance for scholars, but the writing has the verve and clarity to seize and entertain the general reader as well."--International Affairs About the Author David C. Potter is Professor of Political Science at the Open University, UK.