As the Steel Frame Remembers

surviving Indians among the ICS officers who had seen the transi tion from British rule to service in independent India. The twenty respondents whose replies have been published in the book include such well known figures as R.N. Banerjee (who like N.N. Wanchoo, helped in preparing the book but died before it was published), S. Bhoothalingam, Govind Narain, L.K. Jha, Ashok Mitra and B.K. Nehru, to mention only a few. The whole group is very distinguished. And very diverse, which adds to the value of the book.