Subject(s): Non-governmental organizations in India. -- India in Economic policy in 1991 -- India in Social conditions in 1947 -- Development discourse and terrain of non party political formation : Development and its antinomies, development fissures, population resistance in third world, historical view of new grassroots movement, community development and social action groups, internal differentiations, politicization of development, against the revolution, international development network and grassroot organizations, generalized left and grassroots organizations, party left and grassroot organizations -- Theorizing state and civil society : Gramscian outlook, contemporary reading of Gramsci, related scholarship on grassroots politics in india and their conceptual contributions -- Discourse of depoliticization : Resistant beginnings, political economy of debt bondage, politics of political work, anti-politics machine, uncovering fault lines, unfreedom of free labor, development's amazing grace, sansad, hegemony and ideology or contesting representations of social, reifying the social, brief history of depoliticization, socializing the social -- Development, state and commodity fetishism : situating grassroots development, reification and its effects, political economy of participatory development, divergent meaning of development, muddled convergence, anti- social nature of development, regime of truth, technicalization of social, fetish of cow and otehr live creatures, hegemony of modern state, state fetishism, rationality of fetish, economics of commodity fetishism -- Discreet charm of petit bourgeoisie of translation of coercion into consent : Dialectics of resistance, unmasking the state, individualization, through state structures, state idea within sanghatna practice, construction of an ahistorical subject of struggle, cultural basis of modern subject, social history of intellectual class at the grassroots -- NGO-ization of grassroots politics : Theorizing the basis of new struggles, collectivism v/s corporatism, entrapment of politics in form, NGOs as state formations, NGOs in era of globalization