Indian Prime Ministership: A Comprehensive Study

There is no dearth of publications on the personality and achievements of the different Prime Ministers in the shape of biographies. But there was no authentic work on the office of the Prime Minister of India, the permanent institution which stands always there while the Prime Ministers come and go. The office of the Prime Minister came into being in 1950 on the enforcement of the Indian Constitution after its completion by the Constituent Assembly of India. This most important part of the constitution was unwittingly left untouched by the scholars of political science. The evolution of this continuous tide somehow or other escaped the eyes of the writers. The beads were there but no one took the job of piercing them into a string of rosary. I felt the void and dared take up this challenging task and had to spend ten years of hard labour to rearrange the scattered material lying at different places. An attempt has been made to light the full significance of the associated aspects of the political institutions which has come before us as soul of the Indian constitutional body. I have tried my best to interweave lucidity, simplicity and intelligibility into a coherent whole. An endeavour has been made to take the sing of boredom out of this serious subject by inserting the pleasant and humorous incidents quite relevant to the whole story.