The book makes a close search into the British governed India after the Crown assumed the formal responsibility in 1858 with Queen Victoria as India's queen-empress. The author provides us with a detailed account of the entire paraphernalia of the many teired Indian Administrative system, which with minor adjustments continues to this day. The work gives us a detailed and colourful account of the administrative system from the British Parliament of the local bodies in British India. For the study of the historical process of the administration it is an authentic reference work.

By G. Anderson