INSIDER'S VIEW: MEMOIRS OF A PUBLIC SERVANT (Record no. 131403)
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780670085859 |
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Terms of availability | Purchase |
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Note | Home Shop18.com |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 352.63092 |
Item number | CHO/IN |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Javid Chowdhury |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | INSIDER'S VIEW: MEMOIRS OF A PUBLIC SERVANT |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
Edition statement | 1 |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin/ Viking |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012/01/01 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Size of unit | 310 |
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General note | In this illuminating memoir Javid Chowdhury shares his varied experiences over four decades in the IAS: the years in training, when he imbibed the service s ethos and values; his initiation into the rural universe as the District Development Officer and the District Magistrate; and further on, to his handling of the infamous Bank Securities and Jain Hawala scams as Director of Enforcement and Union Revenue Secretary.<br/><br/>With a light pen, Chowdhury describes the changing social profile and attitudes of entrants to the higher civil services; the nepotism, in many garbs, that he encountered as Establishment Officer; and the stranger than fiction tortuous investigations of crimes. He also offers his nuanced reflections on the dubious legacy Gujarat acquired as a result of the communal carnage in 2002.<br/><br/>Chowdhury further examines how policymaking within government came to be whittled away under the neo-liberal theology, with key scrutiny being left to external expert think tanks and ad hoc groups. As a consequence, he perceives that public accountability came to be inordinately diffused, resulting in the roller coaster governance that we witness today.<br/><br/>Sharp and insightful, replete with telling anecdotes and amusing sketches of icons, colleagues and ministers, The Insider s View is a compelling portrait of the author, a self-confessed welfare socialist, besides being an X-ray of the innards of the bureaucracy. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Civil Service System |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Indian Administrative Service |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element | India--Gujarat |
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Koha item type | Lending |
630 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
Uniform title | PUBLIC SER |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Price amount | 499 |
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Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Inventory number | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dewey Decimal Classification | Ernakulam Public Library | Ernakulam Public Library | 2012-11-02 | 499.00 | 0,2012/10/30 | 3 | 3 | 352.63092 CHO/IN | E179003 | 2017-10-28 | 2017-09-16 | 2015-08-14 | Lending |