Subject(s): Water resource management in Rural employment -- Agriculture and state in Economic aspects -- India's tryst with sustainable development -- Re-engineering with the agricultural sector : Giving credit to marginal farmers, micro finance programmes and vulnerability to debt bondage, farm income in India- context of development and institutions -- Water resource management : India's surface irrigation sector- participatory management and pricing, reform in irrigation water pricing, sustainable watershed management - GO-NGO dichotomy, strategy for soil and moisture conservation through watershed development, re-visioning of the watershed development programme in India, conflicts over water resources in Tamil Nadu -- Rural non-farm employment and demographic transition : re-revisiting the issue of linkages of rural non-farm employment, migration as a new demographic transition in Kerala's development -- Institutions, governance, public policy and performance : poverty, institutions as frameworks for operationalizing capabilities, devaluation- evolutionary perspective, decentralized planning in Kerala , public sector performance since 1950