Great Administrators of India - Hardcover

Book Summary of Great Administrators Of India ? In democracy, the responsibility for delivering good governance rests on the performance of the executive, yet the bureaucracy plays a significant part in its success. Though the bureaucracy is required to function under political direction, but their knowledge and erudition certainly facilitate success in administration. This book, Great Administrators of India, contains the profiles of ten successful administrators who made a niche in different fields of their endeavours. They are not biographical essays in the conventional sense. The emphasis is on highlighting the contributions of personalities chosen. of these: V. P. Menon successfully brought the unification of 565 princely states in the Union of India. K. M. Panikkar had been an eminent writer in Malayalam and English, a successful administrator, diplomat and educationist. C.D. Deshmukh, the first Indian to be appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India by the British Raj, was an economist. P. N. Haksar was one of the key policy makers who contributed greatly in the successful prime ministership of India Gandhi. Nagendra Singh was a many-splendoured personality ? a prince, who was a jurist, civil servant, author, international diplomat, and defender of human rights. I.G. Patel had been an economist, technocrat, civil servant, university administrator, and fourteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.