Subject(s): Local government -- Rural conditions -- Rural development -- Rural development projects -- Decentralization in India -- Influence of Cast, Gender and Class in Panchayats -- Panchayats in Western Uttar pradesh -- Panchayats and Natural Disasters -- Land Reforms, West Bengal -- Human Development in Kerala -- Development Priorities : Post-Modernist Assumptions and Pre-Modernist Aspiration -- Women,cast and Religion in a North Indian Village -- Hindi Communalism around Ayodhya Between cast and Class -- Rural Development in West Bengal -- Child Labour and Education : Rural Development