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In rural India the gap between the administration and the people is filled by the "middleman" or "the fixer" - the pyraveekar, as he is familiarly called. The authors explain this phenomenon and explore who the pyraveekar is and what his origins are, the role he plays in rural India and the factors - societal and administrative - that give rise to and sustain this phenomenon with particular emphasis on the Telengana region of Andhra Pradesh. (DÜI-Sen)

The idea of producing a volume in honour of Professor V.V. Ramanadham, oneof the earliest researchers on public enterprise, emerged from an informalexchange of views among several persons in different countries, who areinterested in this subject and closely acquainted with him. The theme of thevolume suggested itself fairly easily, for a major determinant of the efficiency ofpublic enterprise lies in how the government's relationships with it manifestthemselves