This book provides a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of Indian government at many levels. Jayanta Kumar Ray argues that India cannot claim to have reached the attainable level of good performance. The government of India has failed to adopt or implement policies conducive to such an optimum use of available human and material resources as to replace mass poverty with mass prosperity. Accessing a variety of primary and secondary source materials, Ray highlights the wide gap between potentialities and actualities, and the lapses in economic, political, social and administrative fields.