Subject(s): Democratization -- Political participation in India in Congresses. -- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Conceptualizing participatory democracy -- Jayaprakash Narayan's perspective of participatory democracy -- Sri Aurobindo on nation building and democracy in India -- Grass root movements -- Alternative political culture -- Globalizing Democracy : gender balance in politics -- Globalisation -- Black economy -- Bodo-dominated kokrajhar district in Assam -- Disability and participatory democracy in India -- National old age pension scheme: economic democracy in age of globalization -- Democratic participation in managing water resources -- Social movements -- Different facets of participatory democracy -- Democracy and development in India -- Digital divide -- Disaggregation of the state and marginalization of citizenship: health care in Assam -- Politics of democratic participation -- Panchayat raj -- Handicapped democracy in Turkey -- Global quest for participatory democracy : Indo-Pak relations -- Democracy in Nepal -- Good governance