Subject(s): Public administration -- Politics and government -- People's Empowerment -- Panchayati raj -- Tribal Development -- Local government in India in Citizen participation -- Panchayat in India -- India in Politics and government , 1947- -- Transformation of ideology- from people orientation -- Sustainability of Etatist "welfare state " in south Asia -- Globalisation -- Policy design -- Rural development in India -- People's empowerment -- Decentralization -- Constitutional reforms : decentralization below the state -- Empowering panchayats towards good governance -- Institutional mechanism for peoples participation at the local level -- Pachanyats and finance commission -- Restructuring and reform of rural administrative institutions in Mizoram -- Tribal development -- Panchayats in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh -- Urban governance -- Women in India -- Role of NGDOs in Strengthening civil society and democracy: Bangladesh