The editors of the book have divided their subject matter into four broad categories. The first category deals with irrigation development in India, focusing on important issues confronting the use of water resources and on alternate scenarios for future development. The second category examines the improved performance of the existing irrigation system and emphasizes the need for improvement. The third part highlights the issues relating to the process and sustainability of managerial improvement in system management. The last category pinpoints the special problems related to irrigation in Eastern India. The book comprises twenty chapters, with a brief chapter of introduction and four others that present overviews of each of the categories. Fourteen of the remaining chapters cover the main body of the text, with a concluding chapter on a model that promises to resolve the irrigation issues. The overview before each category is quite lucid and often critical, leaving little room for review. However, brief comments are presented for the interested readers.