The Compelling Imperative: Aid in South Asia

Norman D. Palmer is a contributing editor of Current History. He is the author of The Indian Political System, rev. ed. (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1971), South Asia and United States Policy (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1966) and Elections and Political Development: The South Asian Experience (Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1975). He has been in South Asia 11 times over a period of more than 25 years.