Leadership and Political Institutions in India by Park, Richard L. and Irene Tinker, Editors - 1959

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 486pp, 29 papers in eight sections: Traditions of Leadership; Personality and Leadership; Political Institutions; Political Parties; Influence Groups; Public Administration; Rural Development and Administration; and, Leadership and Change in the Villages, index. Tall 8vo/24cm. Blue cloth, silver titling, light wear in protected very lightly edgeworn dj, 4 digit number on title-page, otherwise internally fine. VG/VG. Part (pp 97-98) of undated review from Journal of Asian Studies laid in. Selected papers, edited and revised, from the seminar on Leadership and Political Institutions in India held at the University of California, Berkeley, in August 1956. Among the leading Indian and American scholar-presenters were W. Norman Brown, Robert I. Crane, Margaret W. Fisher, A.D. Gorwala, Selig Harrison, Baij Nath Singh and Myron Weiner. The unnamed reviewer says, "This volume represents something of a landmark in Indian studies in the United States within the nexus of political science-cum-sociology-cum-anthropology, in which it is the first really original American contribution." Mahar 1039..