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Critically evaluate Weber’s ideas on Bureaucracy and highlight the significance of the Weberian model from India’s point of view.

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  • Principal Organs of Government

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Max Weber (Economy and Society, published posthumously in 1922) treated bureaucracy as the administrative expression of legal-rational authority — obedience owed to impersonally enacted rules rather than to tradition or charisma. His ideal type is an analytical accentuation, a yardstick for measuring real administrations, not a description of any one of them.

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  • Critical evaluation
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