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Zustand: New. pp. 156.

Zustand: New. pp. 408.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. pp. xvi + 536 + viii.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Broschur. Zustand: gut. 264 S., 23 cm, Aufkleber, Bibliotheksexemplar, Einband leicht berieben. Sprache: eng.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. The title of the book Those Were the Days, My Friend is the oft-repeated refrain in a popular English song of yesteryears The book is a collection of anecdotes of a civil servant from pre-independence times until the late 1970s, letting in the reader to discover little known facets of public administration in India which have shaped the ethos of our system of governance. The period it spans is formative not only for Bihar, which is the locale of the narrative, but also for other states and the central government in the process of their evolution. Many of the events described here would draw parallels with incidents that occurred elsewhere in different settings, but the discerning reader will not fail to identify the similarities. The book describes in some detail the insidious influences of caste in administration, the propensity of the political executives to place personal gain over public good, the growing trend among politicians to meddle in routine administrative functions and their disappointment with upright civil servants who resisted their stated or unstated desires. The chapter on the Ramgarh Affair is particularly telling for the depth to which public administration had fallen. The decline in norms of ethical conduct that began in Bihar has slowly but surely spread its tentacles far and wide. The author is almost prophetic in asserting that the rot that set in Bihar in the 1960s not only consigned Bihar to the 'Bimaru' basket-together with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh-but was also the harbinger of the sharp descent on the national stage. The story needs telling, as TSR Subramanian says in his Foreword-and N.K. Singh adds: "It is a valuable account for political and economic historians".…

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Taschenbuch / Paperback. Zustand: Gut. Einband leicht berieben, Seiten etwas vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Binding lightly worn, pages somewhat yellowed, otherwise in good condition. - CONTENTS 1. Olga Akhmanova Language or Dialect? 2. Basil Bernstein A Sociolinguistic Approach to Social Learning 3. Marshall Durbin Sociolinguistics: An Approach to Functional Grammar . 4. Lawrence Greenfield and Joshua A. Fishman Situational Measures of Normative Language Views in Relation to Person, Place and Topic Among Puerto Rican Bilinguals 5. H. HECAEN Levolution actuelle des recherches sur la pathologie du langage 6. Heinz Kloss Volker, Sprachen, Mundarten 7. Herbert Landar Theme of Incest in Navaho Folklore 8. William F. Mackey Concept Categories as Measures of Cultural Distance . . 1 9. Madeleine Mathiot The Current State of Sociolinguistics in the United States 10. Nancy Modiano Bilingual Education for Children of Linguistic Minorities 11. G. de RohAn-Csermak Structural Analysis in Material Culture 12. Victor Sadler and Ulrich Lins Regardless of frontiers: A Case Study in Linguistic Per secution 13. Harvey Sarles, Gail Benjamin and Jeanne L. Swope Communication Perspectives for Sociolinguistics . 14. O. Michael Watson Proxemics As Non-Verbal Communication 15. Samir K. Ghosh Man, Language and Society. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Janua Linguarum, Series minor ; 109. Buch.