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It is a book containing well-researched articles on local good governance and grassroots development in India in general and West Bengal in particular. All the papers seek to critically analyse the available secondary material in order to identify the issues of concern and suggest remedial measures. Primary data have however been generated and used for two articles which seek to explore dynamics of the working of the grassroots democratic institutions in rural ...
Indian democracy, as it looks in the golden jubilee year of India's independence, is in a shambles. The democratic legitimacy of the state in India is in question because the electoral process is vitiated by money and muscle power. The attempts to develop grassroots democratic institutions and to build decentralised democratic structures at the regional levels in response to the growing demands of some ethnic groups to not seem to have been effective. The ...
The book is a collection of articles on grassroots development in India. It calls for decentralisation of powers and functions an empowerment of the people. The discussions have been organised into two sections. The first section has a macrofocus as it contains articles on India and the second has a micro focus as it incorporates articles on West Bengal.