village of the Indian Sundarbans. …

allotted funds, and significantly lower allocation of resources to the village as a whole. Political competition or literacy …

surveyed during 1975-84. This study is linked to the original Village Level Survey (VLS) households to a new survey in the …

Indian Constitution in 1992, that typically cover a group of natural villages; and (b) the informal, long standing, village … activities at the level of the individual natural village. On the basis of field research in 30 villages in Karnataka, this paper … tries to present a more holistic picture of ILGIs, including their role in village governance and service delivery; the ways …

sources against the experience of poverty decline in a western Uttar Pradesh village, Palanpur, which has been the subject of …, it is only relatively recently that rural poverty decline has become strongly linked to diversification of the village … economy. There is little evidence that, prior to the 1990s, the poor in the village were able to participate actively in this …