Handbook of Decentralised Governance and Development in India

1. Decentralised Governance and Development in India: An Introduction 2. Seeing PRIs in India and their History from a Gandhian Perspective 3. The Evolution of Devolution PART 2: DIMENSIONS OF DECENTRALISATION 4.Political Decentralisation: Role of Political Parties from Colonial times 5.Rural Local Governance and Administrative Decentralisation: An Institutional Analysis 6. Fiscal Decentralisation in India: Status and Raising Issues 7. State Sub-state Level Fiscal Decentralisation in India: Theoretical Issues and Policy Options 8. Decentralised Planning in India: Challenges and Prospects 9. Implementation of PESA and Status of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Fifth Scheduled Areas of Indian States: Issues, Challenges and Ways Ahead PART 3: DECENTRALISED RURAL GOVERNANCE 10. Deliberative democracy through Grama Sabha: Progress and Issues 11. Decentralised Governance in India: The Anticipated and the Unanticipated 12. Interrogating Local Democracy: Formal and Informal local governance in Karnataka 13. Good Governance in Gram Panchayats of Kerala: Not So Good? 14. Capacity Development for Good Governance in Panchayats: Status, Effectiveness and Issues 15. ICT for Local Governance- Status, Emerging Issues and Prospects PART 4: DECENTRALISED URBAN GOVERNANCE 16. Decentralised Governance in Urban Areas: Problems and Prospects from a Socio-historical Perspective 17. Urban local Governance: Revisiting the Fundamentals 18. Intergovernmental Transfers to Urban Local Bodies in India: Issues and Directions for Reforms PART 5: SECTORAL ASPECTS OF DECENTRALISATION 19. Implementing Workfare through Decentralised Government for Poverty Reduction 20. The policy and practice of decentralised natural resource management in India 21. Devolving Rights to Forest Dwellers: Politics of Institutional Choice and Recognition in Forest Rights Act Implementation process in West Bengal, India