Introduction / Ralph Braibanti -- Structure of the British Imperial heritage / Hugh Tinker -- Recruitment and training of British civil servants in India 1600-1860 / Bernard S. Cohn -- Bureaucratic change in India / David C. Potter -- The higher bureaucracy of Pakistan / Ralph Braibanti -- Bureaucratic transformation in Burma / James F. Guyot -- Ceylon, the imperial heritage / Charles Collins -- Ceylon, the contemporary bureaucracy / Robert N. Kearney -- Bureaucratic development in Malaya / Robert O. Tilman -- Administrative change in Nepal / Merrill R. Goodall -- Concluding observations / Ralph Braibanti