Handbook of decentralized governance and development in India

Part 1. The Setting. Decentralized governance and development in India : An introduction -- Seeing PRIs in India and their History from a Gandhian perspective -- The evolution of devolution -- Part 2. Dimensions of Decentralization. Political decentralization : Role of political parties from colonial times -- Rural local governance and administrative decentralization : An institutional analysis -- Fiscal decentralization in India : Status and raising issues -- State sub-state level fiscal decentralization in India : Theoretical issues and policy options -- Decentralized planning in India : Challenges and prospects -- Implementation of PESA and status of Panchayati Raj institutions in fifth scheduled areas of Indian states : Issues, challenges and ways ahead -- Part 3. Decentralized Rural Governance. Deliberative democracy through Grama Sabha : Progress and issues -- Decentralized governance in India : The anticipated and the unanticipated -- Interrogating local democracy : Formal and informal local governance in Karnataka -- Good governance in Gram Panchayats of Kerala : Not so good? -- Capacity development for good governance in Panchayats : Status, effectiveness and issues -- ICT for local governance - Status, emerging issues and prospects -- Part 4. Decentralized Urban Governance. Decentralized governance in urban areas : Problems and prospects from a socio-historical perspective -- Urban local governance : Revisiting the fundamentals -- Intergovernmental transfers to urban local bodies in India : Issues and directions for reforms -- Part 5. Sectoral Aspects of Decentralization. Implementing workfare through decentralized government for poverty reduction -- The policy and practice of decentralized natural resource management in India -- Devolving rights to forest dwellers : Politics of institutional choice and recognition in forest rights act implementation process in West Bengal, India.