Decentralizing rural governance and development : perspectives, ideas, and experiences /
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| Imprint: | Jaipur : Rawat Publications, [2015] |
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| Description: | xiv, 326 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10975321 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- I. Decentralization: Theory and Ideas
- 1. Decentralization and Local Governance
- 2. Gandhian Approach to Development and Decentralization: Perspectives and Relevance
- 3. Tagore's Views on Decentralized Development: An Alternative Model
- II. Panchayati Raj in India: Experiences and Capacity Building
- 4. Decentralizing for Development: Constitutional Perspective
- 5. Local Governance in Indian Federal System: Where the Shoe Pinches
- 6. Participatory Democracy and Panchayats in India: Problems and Prospects
- 7. Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Rural Development: West Bengal in Retrospect
- 8. Capacity Building of Panchayati Raj Institutions: The West Bengal Experience
- 9. People's Participation in Development through the PRIs: A Thorn in the Foot
- III. Issues in Decentralization and Panchayati Raj
- 10. The Panchayati Raj and the Bureaucracy: An Insider's Recollections from West Bengal
- 11. Institutionalizing Decentralized Planning in India: A Doable Project or a Futile Fantasy
- 12. Whither Partyless and/or Non-Party Panchayats? Contextualizing the Answers
- 13. West Bengal Panchayat Elections 2013: Contemporary Debates
- IV. Decentralizing Development: Including the Excluded
- 14. Ethnopolitics and Self-governance in Darjeeling Hills: The Lepcha and the Panchayats
- 15. Identity, Autonomy and Development through Decentralization: Journey from Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration
- 16. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Decentralized Development: Experiences from West Bengal
- 17. Delivering Guaranteed Employment: Experience of Half a Decade of Decentralized Development
- Index