Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. Political Role of Panchayat Raj
Chapter 2. Decentralisation Below the State Level
Chapter 3. Decentralised Planning
Chapter 4. Panchayat Raj Bill
Chapter 5. Panchayats versus Multinationals
Chapter 6. Women in Panchayati Raj
Chapter 7. Democracy and Social Capital in Central Himalayas
Chapter 8. Panchayat Raj
Chapter 9. Grass Roots Politics and ‘Second Wave of Decentralisation'
Chapter 10. Networks of Panchayat Women
Chapter 11. Poverty Alleviation Efforts of Panchayats
Chapter 12. Experiment with Direct Democracy
Chapter 13. Building Budgets from below
Chapter 14. Impact of Reservation in Panchayat Raj
Chapter 15. Law of Two-Child Norm in Panchayats
Chapter 16. Federalism, Urban Decentralisation and Citizen Participation
Chapter 17. Fiscal Decentralization to the Sub-State Legal Governments
Chapter 18.Functional Devolution to Rural Local Bodies in Four States
Chapter 19. Neighbourhood Associations and Local Democracy
Chapter 20. Expanding the Resource Base of Panchayats
Chapter 21. Women in Power?
Chapter 22. Revenue Efforts of Panchayats
Chapter 23. Local Democracy and Clientelism
Chapter 24. Limits of ‘Devolution Index’
Chapter 25. Beyond Feminine Public Altruism
List of Authors