PMO: Himanshu Roy's book traces evolution of prime-ministerial governance

The book has an excellent section on how the offices of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet secretariat have evolved in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia

PMO – Prime Minister’s Office Through the Years

Author: Himanshu Roy

Publisher: Rupa Publications 

Pages: xliv plus 148

Price: Rs 495

 

The manner in which India’s prime ministers over the years have strengthened and expanded their own secretariat is not an unknown story. This trend has been noted and analysed by several commentators and senior civil servants who wrote their memoirs after retirement. But the book under review takes a long-term and comprehensive view of the evolution of a prime ministerial government in New Delhi. It narrates the story of how almost all prime ministers worked towards sacrificing a Cabinet-led governance model. In the