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There remain many political and administrative problems to be solved.

For one thing, although considerable numbers of men have been trained, bureaucracies are still deficient in many respects ; ;

even the famed Indian Civil Service is not fully adequate to the tremendous range of tasks it has undertaken.

Technical assistance in training middle- and upper-level management personnel is still needed in many cases.

There are also more basic problems.

This is the stage at which democratic developments must take place if the society is to become an open community of creative people.

Nevertheless, impulses still exist among the ruling elite to rationalize and thus to perpetuate the need for centralized and authoritarian practices.

Another great danger is that the emerging middle class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism.

The capacity of intellectuals and members of the new professional classes to contribute creatively to national development is likely to be destroyed by a constraining sense of inferiority toward both their own political class and their colleagues and professional counterparts in the West.

Particularly when based upon a single dominant party, governments may respond to such a situation by claiming a monopoly of understanding about the national interest.

Convinced of the wisdom of their own actions, and reassured by the promises of their economic development programs, governments may fail to push outward to win more and more people to the national effort, becoming instead more rigid and inflexible in their policies.