PANIGRAHI, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner is the proprietrix of a firm of publishers known as Mahaprasad brothers who published an Oriya book known as "ama ITIHASA GAPA" which was prescribed as a text-book for Class IV in the Schools of Orissa. This book was in the list of approved text-books published by the Director of Public instruction, Orissa, and was recommended as a suitable text-book for Class IV for the year 1951-52. For the next year, namely 1952-53, a fresh list of approved text books was published by the Director of Public Instruction in which the above publication did not find a place. The petitioner's grievance is that she sustained a loss of about Rs. 4,000/-as, by the omission of her publication from the approved list, 7000 copies of the same remained unsold. She has therefore applied, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying for the issuances of a writ in th? nature of mandamus or certiorari against the Director of Public instruction, Orissa, directing that officer to include the said book in the list of approved text-books for the year 1952-53.

( 2 ) THE sheet-anchor of the petitioner's case is that once a publication is approved by the Director of Publi