minsky /f Arnold /i P.
?Despite the fact that the India Office was for 89 years the
British Home Government's largest and most complex overseas
possession, the significance of its role in the formation of Indian
policy, especially in its earliest years, has seldom been properly
appreciated.... Kaminsky now offers an authoritative and detailed
account covering the years 1880-1910. In part a biographical study
of Sir Arthur Godley, Permanent Undersecretary of State for India
from 1883 to 1909, and in part an exhaustive administrative
history, the work is based on extensive use of public and private
archives. Kaminsky casts invaluable light on the machinery of
decision and policy-making, on the legal responsibilities of the
constituent parts of the office, and on its relations to the
Council of India, the Government of India in Calcutta, Parliament,
other departments of state, and various extra-constitutional'
groups like the press and lobbies. Extensive bibliography and
important appendixes provide biographical notes and details of
membership of the Council and its committees.?-Choice
"Despite the fact that the India Office was for 89 years the
British Home Government's largest and most complex overseas
possession, the significance of its role in the formation of Indian
policy, especially in its earliest years, has seldom been properly
appreciated.... Kaminsky now offers an authoritative and detailed
account covering the years 1880-1910. In part a biographical study
of Sir Arthur Godley, Permanent Undersecretary of State for India
from 1883 to 1909, and in part an exhaustive administrative
history, the work is based on extensive use of public and private
archives. Kaminsky casts invaluable light on the machinery of
decision and policy-making, on the legal responsibilities of the
constituent parts of the office, and on its relations to the
Council of India, the Government of India in Calcutta, Parliament,
other departments of state, and various extra-constitutional'
groups like the press and lobbies. Extensive bibliography and
important appendixes provide biographical notes and details of
membership of the Council and its committees."-Choice
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