Panchayati Raj Institutions and rural development : narratives on inclusion of excluded / edited by Bishnu C. Barik, Umesh C. Sahoo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction Panchayati Raj Institutions and rural development contextualising the discourse/B.C. Barik Santosh Kumar and U.C. Sahoo.
2. Including the excluded empowering the powerless case studies of Panchayati Raj in Maharashtra/B.S. Baviskar.
3. Representative and participatory democracy indigenisation of Indian democracy/Partha Nath Mukherji.
4. Empowerment of Scheduled Castes and women a study of three villages in Kolhapur District/R.B. Patil.
5. Factors influencing women's participation in Panchayati Raj Institutions/Archana Kamble (Jagatkar) and Sarjerao Salunkhe.
6. Can the modern and the traditional Panchayats co exist in Schedule V areas/R. Siva Prasad. 7. Decentralization Panchayati Raj and the rights of marginalised groups in India a case for civil society/Gaurang R. Sahay.
8. Development through people's empowerment lessons from Rural Maharashtra/B.B. Mohanty. 9. Empowerment of PRI representatives framework and realities/Aureliano Fernandes.
10. Functioning of Panchayati Raj in Scheduled Areas of Gujarat/Satyakam Joshi.
11. Impact of positive discrimination on leadership of marginalised sections in rural governance some concerns/Santosh Kumar.
12. New Panchayat Raj system in India as an agency of Bottom up Approach to rural development a review/Kunj Bihari Nayak.
13. Representing village state rural development and the villager/Manish Thakur.
14. Inter associational conflicts and cooperation implications for development a case study of two villages in Karnataka/Ozmond Roshan D'Souza.
Index

Papers presented at the National Seminar on Panchayati Raj Institutions and Rural Development in Western India, held at Nanded during 24-25 February 2006.