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Out of roughly 3000 ‘Castes’ estimated to exist in India, as many as 779 have been designated, as per Article 341 of the Constitution of India, as Scheduled Castes who occupy the lowest rank in the ritual hierarchy of Indian society and constitute bulk of agricultural labourers with minucule land holdings. As per 1991 Census Schedule Caste persons total 32,50,933 constituting 19.75 per cent of the total population of Haryana, an agriculturally dynamic state ...
The horizons of public administration, one of the younger social science disciplines in the university campuses of India, began to widen and deepen rapidly after the state acquired a greater stake in the Indian economy with the inauguration of the planning era in 1950. The ensuring years saw a quantum jump in the stature and structures of public administration as an activity and this duly cast it shadows on the study and research in the discipline with a steady ...
As a political phenomenon, coalition and coalition governments have become a part of Indian public life, but are coalitions capable of steering the ship of administration towards and the welfare, developmental and regulatory shores of Good Governance? The contributors to this volume, who are renowned scholars of Public Administration and Political Science, grapple with the analytical assessment of the strength and weaknesses of coalition governments in India ...