Democracy, development and decentralisation in India : continuing debates / editors, Chandan Sengupta, Stuart Corbridge ; foreword by Anthony Giddens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Chandan Sengupta and Stuart Corbridge -- Equality or inclusion : the dilemma of India's democracy / Meghnad Desai -- Burden of exception : deficits and deepening of democratic development in India / Chandan Sengupta -- The continuing reinvention of India / John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge -- Development as freedom and justice : an essay on Sen and Rawls / Parthasarathi Mondal -- Framing the development debate : the case of farmer's suicide in India / Ritambhara Hebbar -- Institutional credit and economic entitlement : emerging regional and sectoral divides in Maharashtra / Abdul Shaban -- Fiscal decentralisation and urban local governments in India : an empirical review / Anita Rath -- Decentralisation, women's rights and development : lessons from India and South Africa / Jo Beall -- Social divisions and rural non-farm sector : lessons from India / Gaurang R. Sahay -- Development and change in agrarian economy : aspects of rural non-farm sector in Andhra Pradesh, India / Perumula Gopinath -- Privatising social opportunity : trends and implications for higher education in India / Anindita Chakrabarti -- Healthcare services and development in India : a study of reproductive health in Jharkhand / P.M. Sandhya Rani -- Public intervention, institutions and human development in India : theory and evidence / Sandhya S. Iyer.

Offering new insights into the political economy of contemporary India, this book considers how and why unequal patterns of economic growth have taken shape within the context of a democratic and decentralising political system, and how this has impacted upon the processes of economic development.