Subject(s): Indian Irrigation -- Canal systems -- Governance : concepts, Issues and challenges -- Governance of water-issues and challenges, Water governance, Politics and policy, Misgovernance of droughts in India, Gender issues in water governance -- Pricing, subsides and governance of surface water -- Pricing, subsidies and institutional reforms in Indian Irrigation, Recovery of irrigation user cess and governance of canal systems, Irrigation water pricing, Ethnography of building a water users association, Crafting institutions for collective action in canal irrigation, Inter state water disputes and the governance challenge -- Groundwater governance -- Groundwater governance in eastern India, Political economy of groundwater governance in Gujarat, Governing the groundwater economy- Comparative analysis of national institutions and policies in south Asia -- Multi-stakeholders participation, collaborative policy making and water governance -- Multi-stakeholders dialogue as an approach towards sustainable use of groundwater in Palar river basin -- New institutional economics of Indian water policy, Water resources policy process in India- Centralisation, polarisation and new demands on governance