Tripura Administration: The Era of Modernisation (1870-1972)

This Volume probes into the process of changes made in the Administration of the Tripura State during a period of nearly 100 years from 1870, the year of coronation of Maharaj Birchandra Manikya, to 1972, the year of its attainment of full-fledge statehood in the Indian Union. It attempts to describe the steps of modernization in Executive, Legislative and Judicial spheres during the rule of the Maharajas of the particular age and the period of administration of the State after Integration, through which a primitive, tribal and patriarchal set-up having directly little control all over the State has been turned into a fully bureaucratic and modernized democratic system, extending administrative control throughout the interior of the land. The author has also tried to analyse the forces behind the evolution of the administrative system and to explain the changes through input-output analysis as far as practicable.