from South India to demonstrate how they create a culture of civic/political engagement among poor people, and how …

facilitation program in rural India, with an in-depth, four-year ethnography of the intervention to understand the underlying …

understanding collective action. He illustrates the point by contrasting how conceptions of nationalism in Indonesia and India …-help) that was both internalized and coercively enforced. India emphasized democratic decentralization through the panchayat …-efficiency tradeoff. Indonesia has delivered public services much more efficiently than India did, but at the cost of democratic freedoms …

economists. In India, for example, domestic violence is used as a bargaining instrument, to extract larger dowries from a wife … in southern India on qualitative and survey data. Based on the ethnographic evidence, they develop a noncooper … marriage (in the form of more male children) - reduce the probability of violence. In India marriage is almost never a matter …