Grass-Roots Democracy in India and China: The Right To ParticipateManoranjan Mohanty Annotation This volume closely studies the grass-roots political experiences in India and China from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the process of democratisation and highlights the growing demands for participation and the complex power structures interjecting them. In both India and China, economic reforms have generated new challenges for local institutions. The contributors to this volume accordingly discuss issues relating to institutional structures and the dynamics of local governance in a changing socio-economic environment. In addition to the political economy of rural areas, they also focus on the role of gender, ethnicity and religion in local political processes. In doing so, the volume: " outlines how institutional innovation has evolved in both countries; " brings out the extent to which the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution (in India) and the Organic Law (in China) have facilitated political participation; and " investigates how far the new democratic processes have reduced ethnic subordination, caste hierarchy and gender injustice at the village level. Comprising individual case studies as well as comparative perspectives, this pioneering volume raises new issues of institution-building and socio-economic change vis--vis the right to participate. |
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... groups ( NHGs ) launched in 1999-2000 in the municipal areas and 250 grama panchayats was distinguished by features that were remarkably different from the so - called ' best practices ' espoused by the World Bank . Instead of the NGOs ...
... groups ( NHGs ) launched in 1999-2000 in the municipal areas and 250 grama panchayats was distinguished by features that were remarkably different from the so - called ' best practices ' espoused by the World Bank . Instead of the NGOs ...
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... groups in the community . In con- trast , the popularity of pawnbrokering and mutual finance groups may be attributed to their flexibility relative to restrictions associated with loans from the village bank . Villagers turned to the ...
... groups in the community . In con- trast , the popularity of pawnbrokering and mutual finance groups may be attributed to their flexibility relative to restrictions associated with loans from the village bank . Villagers turned to the ...
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... groups such as water users associations , watershed committees , van samrakshan samitis , DWACRA groups , tribal development committees , ' Janmabhoomi ' ( motherland ) habitation committees , etc. The financial transaction of all these ...
... groups such as water users associations , watershed committees , van samrakshan samitis , DWACRA groups , tribal development committees , ' Janmabhoomi ' ( motherland ) habitation committees , etc. The financial transaction of all these ...
Contents
List of Tables | 11 |
ABC Agricultural Bank of China | 49 |
The Identity | 53 |
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activities administrative agricultural Amendment Andhra Pradesh Anhui bank Beijing brigade cadres candidates caste system cent of villagers changes China Chinese Communist Party Constitution cooperatives decentralisation Delhi democracy democratic district economic development elite formal functions funds Gaca gender grama panchayat grama sabha grass-roots Heilongjiang households hukou Hurqige implementation income informal finance Inner Mongolia institutional exclusion Karnataka kaxie Kerala labour Lahu land leaders Lianjiang loans Maharashtra mandal Maratha ment microcredit microfinance mobilisation NGOs nil nil nil officials organisation participation party secretary peasants people's congress planning political population programmes projects reform representatives role rural China Rural Development sector self-government Seventy-third SHGs Shizhong District social society status structure Tajik taluk panchayats Total township head urban village committee village elections village panchayat vote West Bengal women Zhouzhuang zilla zilla parishad