Governance by stealth : the Ministry of Home Affairs and making of the Indian state / Subrata K. Mitra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitra, Subrata Kumar, 1949- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India. Ministry of Home Affairs--History.

India.

India. Ministry of Home Affairs--Rules and practice--History.

Decolonization--India--History.

Decolonization.

Federal government--India--History.

Federal government.

Public administration--India.

Public administration.

Democracy--India.

Democracy.

India--Politics and government--1947-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 476 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

India's Ministry of Home Affairs, with its striking durability, and ability to adapt to the transition from colonial rule to post-colonial governance, is a remarkable example of institutional resilience. Home's special expertise in governance by stealth - maximum order with the use of minimum force - was instrumental for the department to acquire a secure niche within the colonial structure. Following the end of colonial rule in 1947, the Home Department, still ensconced in the majestic North Block of Delhi, mutated into the Home Ministry of the Indian Republic. How a colonial institution whose key task was to hold Indian nationalism at bay became the architect of the post-colonial state and nation, is one of the main questions to which the author responds in this book.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-099337-5

OCLC:

1420808481