Chapter One: Introduction: Understanding Civil Service in South Asia, Ishtiaq Jamil, Tek Nath Dhakal and Narendra Raj Paudel.- Chapter Two: The Civil Service System in Bhutan, Dhurba Rizal.- Chapter Three: The Civil Service System of Bangladesh, Sk.Tawfique M. Haque and M. Mahfuzul Haque.- Chapter Four: Civil Service Management in India, Namrata Singh.- Chapter Five: Civil Service Management in Nepal, Shree Krishna Shrestha and Narendra Raj Paudel.- Chapter Six: The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy and Citizen's Trust in the Civil Service in Nepal, Ishtiaq Jamil.- Chapter Seven: Civil Service Reforms in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Progress So Far, Implementation Barriers and Challenges, Imtiaz Badshah and Konstantin Timoshenko.- Chapter Eight: The New Statutory Civil Service in the Maldives: Towards a Decentralized Human Resource Management Model? Mohamed Faizal andRob Laking.- Chapter Nine: Public Administration in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of Evolution, Trends and Challenges in Personnel Management, Renuka Priyantha, Ranjith Dickwella and Ravindra Gunasekara.- Chapter Ten: The Administrative System in Bangladesh: Reform Initiatives with Failed Outcomes, Pranab Kumar Panday.- Chapter Eleven: Reforms in the Administrative System of Nepal, Bharat Gautam.- Chapter Twelve: The Local Administrative System in India, Jitendra G. Wasnik.- Chapter Thirteen: Public Administration in Sri Lanka: An Inquiry into Structure, Reforms, and Management, K. Liyanage, R. Ramesh and N. Sivakumar.- Chapter Fourteen: The Development of Public Administration in the People's Republic of China: An Analysis of Administrative Reform, S.Baskaran and Mr. M.M. Ihjas.