List of Boxes;
1 Introduction;
Part I Listening to the Frontline;
Part II Rewriting the Grammar of the Education System: Describing Delhi’s Education Revolution;
Part III Building State Capacity: A Voyage of Discovery;
Appendix Details of Data Collection Methods;
Bibliography;
Index.

"This chapter lays out the research puzzles that motivate the book. It highlights, through a series of vignettes, the key research puzzles as they evolved through interactions with education bureaucrats both at the frontlines and higher levels of bureaucracy. It draws on these to lay out the key theoretical and empirical questions addressed in the book. Further, it seeks to locate this work and its theoretical contributions within the broader, global literature on state capacity. This chapter ends with a brief overview of the research methods and structure and organization of the book"-- Provided by publisher.