Sivanandamandiram Narayanan Sadasivan (1926–2006) was an Indian author. Sadasivan wrote various books on public administration, the
social history
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of India and management. He managed the activities of the Kerala Institute of Public Administration at
Thiruvananthapuram
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, Kerala.
Career
For 14 years from 1964, Sadasivan worked for the
Government of India
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as a teacher of Indian Civil Service trainees in various institutes across India. He was a professor of Public Administration in the Kerala Institute Public administration in Thiruvananthapuram from 1978 to 1980. He served as a professor of public administration in the
Indian Institute of Public Administration
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The Government of India ( ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), ...
, New Delhi, and then in the Academy of Administration,
Bhopal
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from 1988 to 1993.
Published works
*''Party and democracy in India'', Tata McGraw-Hill: New Delhi (1977) – a revision of Sadasivan's thesis submitted to the University of Poona in 1963
*''District administration: A national perspective'', Indian Institute of Public Administration: New Delhi (1988) – editor
*''Dynamics of public policy'', Indian Journal of Public Administration. Vol. 31, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1985))
*''District administration: A national perspective : National seminar on district administration : Selected papers and summaries'', Indian Institute of Public Administration: New Delhi (1988) – co-authored with Indian Institute of Public Administration
*''Citizen and administration'', Indian Institute of Public Administration: New Delhi (1984)
*''Productivity and efficiency in administration'', Phoenix Publishing House: New Delhi (2002)
*''Administration and social development in Kerala : a study in administrative sociology'', Ind