CONTENTS PREFACE 7 ABBREVIATIONS 9 OVERVIEW S. Mahendra Dev and K.S. Babu 11 1. REVISITING THE STATE: NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE 1. 'Negotiated Spaces' for Representation in Mumbai: Ward Committees, Advanced Locality Management and the Politics of Middle-Class Activism I.S.A. Baud and Navtej Nainan 33 2. PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN BASIC SERVICE DELIVERY: IMPACTS ON THE POOR 2. Public-Private Partnership in Basic Service Delivery: Women Empowerment Programmes in Delhi Shipra Maitra 67 3. Patterns of Policy in Public-Private Partnerships: Puzzles, Performance, Problems and Prospects in the Delivery of Health Care Services in India A. Venkat Raman and James Warner Bjorkman 109 3. ACCESS TO PUBLIC AND CORPORATE SECTOR EMPLOYMENT: RURAL AND URBAN DYNAMICS 4. Employment, Exclusion and 'Merit' in the Indian IT Industry Carol Upadhya 145 5. Access to Employment in India: The Case of Public and Corporate Sector Jobs Alakb N. Sharma 169 6. Labour Under Stress: An Assessment Based on Primary Information Sunanda Sen and Byasdeb Dasgupta 207 THEME 4. UNEVEN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS 7. From the Other End: Tribals and Democratic Decentralization in Kerala Abey George and Jyothi Krishnan 241 8. Livelihood Security in the Marine Fisheries Sector of Gujarat State Jyothis Sathyapalan and Derek Johnson 277 5. GENDER AND GENERATION AS DIVISIONS IN INDIA'S DEVELOPMENT 9. Gender, Poverty and Transfer of Water Management: Case Study of the Tank Rehabilitation Project Pondicherry Loes Schenk-Sandbergen 307 6. DISPLACEMENT, CONFLICT AND CRISES: THE FLIPSIDE OF GLOBALIZATION 10. Caste and Religion in a Transnational Context: The Patidars of Central Gujarat Mario Rutten 347 11. Diversion of Land and Displacement in India: Review of Evidence and Issues Amita Shah and Animesh Kumar 365 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 407