Subject(s): Community and school -- Education -- Elementary Literacy -- Decentarlization -- Community particiaption and school education- experiments in state of Kerala, commmunity participation and empowerment in primary education, community participation and literacy, community in charge- shades of experience form Madhya Pradesh, dynamics of community mobilization in a fragmented and turbulent state -- Community participation in primary education in Karnataka, making sense of community participation comparing school education and watershed development, dynamics of decentralized management in primary education- policy and practice in Rajasthan and madhya Pradesh, capaicity building for educational governance at local levels