This book is the first reprint edition of great reformist, farsighted and the father of Indian Constitution Dr. B R Ambedkar. He had treasure of knowledge which he used to frame the Constitution of the largest democracy of the world, India. One of his book ?The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India?, which was originally published in the year 1924 is again in front of the readers in the same format and style in which it was published originally. This book deals with the Following Chapters: Provincial Finance: Its Origin, Development, Mechanism and Under the Government of India Act of 1919 CONTENTS Author's Preface v Introduction-Definition and Outline of the Subject xi Part - I Provincial Finance: Its Origin I. The Imperial System: Its Growth and its Breakdown 1 II. Imperialism v. Federalism 29 III. The Compromise-imperial Finance without Imperial Management 41 Part - II Provincial Finance: Its Development IV. Budge by Assignments 54 V. Budget by Assigned Revenues 77 VI. Budget by shared revenues 96 Part - III Provincial Finance: Its Mechanism VII. The Limitations of Provincial Finance 137 VIII. The Nature of Provincial Finance 152 IX. The Enlargement of the Scope of Provincial Finance 172 Part - IV Provincial Finance under the Government of India Act of 1919 X. The Necessity for a Change in the System 186 XI. The Nature of the Change 209 XII. A Critique of the Change 250 Index 281