Subject(s): Politics and Government -- Locality and region -- decentralization -- Political Economy -- Indian democracy -- India under colonial rule: elections and separate representation in British India -- Rhetoric of democracy and development in late colonial India -- Democracy and the state -- Moderate state and democracy -- Political change in a democratic developing country -- demand polity and command polity -- State and democracy in India or what happened to welfare, secularism and development -- Democracy and civil society -- Culture of representative democracy -- Power and knowledge in development discourse: social movements and the state in India -- Democratic rite: celebration and participation in the Indian elections -- Hunger and public action -- Indian consociational interpretation -- Democracy and development -- Economic development and political democracy -- political economy of reforms in India -- Democracy , locality and region -- Elections in Indian villages -- Democracy and decentralization in karnataka -- Future of Indian democracy -- Anti-caste movement and discourse of power -- Hindu nationalism and democracy