Handbook of Decentralised Governance and Development in India

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Part 1 The setting
	Chapter 1 Decentralised governance and development in India: An introduction
	Chapter 2 Seeing PRIs in India and their history from a Gandhian perspective
	Chapter 3 The evolution of devolution
Part 2 Dimensions of decentralisation
	Chapter 4 Political decentralisation: Role of political parties from colonial times
	Chapter 5 Rural local governance and administrative decentralisation: An institutional analysis
	Chapter 6 Fiscal decentralisation in India: Status and raising issues
	Chapter 7 State–sub-state level fiscal decentralisation in India: Theoretical issues and policy options
	Chapter 8 Decentralised planning in India: Challenges and prospects
	Chapter 9 Implementation of PESA and status of panchayat raj institutions in fifth scheduled areas of Indian states: Issues, challenges and ways ahead
Part 3 Decentralised rural governance
	Chapter 10 Deliberative democracy through Grama Sabha: Progress and issues
	Chapter 11 Decentralised governance in India: The anticipated and the unanticipated
	Chapter 12 Interrogating local democracy: Formal and informal local governance in Karnataka1
	Chapter 13 Good governance in Gram Panchayats of Kerala: Not so good?
	Chapter 14 Capacity development for good governance in Panchayats: Status, effectiveness and issues
	Chapter 15 ICT for local governance: Status, emerging issues and prospects
Part 4 Decentralised urban governance
	Chapter 16 Decentralised governance in urban areas: Problems and prospects from a socio-historical perspective1
	Chapter 17 Urban local governance: Revisiting the fundamentals
	Chapter 18 Intergovernmental transfers to urban local bodies in India: Issues and directions for reforms
Part 5 Sectorial aspects of decentralisation
	Chapter 19 Implementing workfare through decentralised government for poverty reduction
	Chapter 20 The policy and practice of decentralised natural resource management in India
	Chapter 21 Devolving rights to forest dwellers: Politics of institutional choice and recognition in the Forest Rights Act implementation process in West Bengal, India
Index