About the Book : The Progressive Maharaja : Sir Madhava Raos Hints on the Art
and Science of Government
Hints on the Art and Science of Government was the first treatise on statecraft
produced in modern India. It consists of lectures that Raja Sir T. Madhava Rao
delivered in 1881 to Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III, the young Maharaja of Baroda.
Universally considered the foremost Indian statesman of the nineteenth century,
Madhava Rao had served as dewan (or prime minister) in the native states of
Travancore, Indore and Baroda. Under his command, Travancore and Baroda came to
be seen as model states, whose progress demonstrated that Indians