Table of Contents
Acknowledgement;
Abstract.;
List of Inserts;
List of Abbreviations;
Introduction;
Chapter One: A chronicle of Urban Water Governance;
The spread of Democracy: Time for celebration or for critique?;
Ambiguities in water law and policies;
Locating & Mapping the Thesis;
Chapter Two: The emergence of the 'good governance' agenda and the reinvention of development assistance ;
Transforming the state to be subservient to the market;
Redefining Civil Society participation within a liberal democracy framework;
Good governance: the flight from pluralism; The Rise of the Technocrat;
Privatisation: A 'short route' to governance;
Chapter Three: Karnataka, the water privatization capital of Asia;
Critical Ethnography: lion the ground";
An anthropology of public policy: "Ghosts in the Machine";
Studying policy through project interventions and everyday practices;
Researching th~ Site of Reform;
The Resistance - The People's Campaign for Right to Water – Karnataka;
Chapter Four: The Reform leader;
Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission - Centralising decision making, decentralizing indebtedness and deprivation;
A Model State?;
Task Forces: Power without accountability;
The Path of Urban Water Governance Reforms in Karnataka's institutions of state Governance;
An Early reformer;
Policy as the New Law;
A team of Super Bureaucrats;
Chapter Five: Success, at any cost;
The Work of Experts: Minimising Risk, Manufacturing Success;
The first 'expert' consultant: For law and Institutional re-engineering;
The second technical 'expert' consultancy: Physical and Technical Re-engineering;
The third 'expert' consultancy: Social re-engineering;
Chapter Six: A civilising mission in slums;
Are they being Served?;
Good Living - for the people, of the people, by the people';
Chapter Seven: Greater Bangalore, mammoth reforms;
Corporate Citizenship - "Be the change you want to see";
Beneficiary Capital Contribution - Invest upfront, but you are a beneficiary, not a Partner;
Chapter Eight: Good Governance Reforms or Subversion of Democracy and Rights?.
References.

Privatization of Water - Karnataka Urban water Governance Water Security Reforms - Karnataka