Contents List of Tables vii List of Figures xi List of Abbreviations xii Acknowledgements xiii Forewoard xiv 1.Introduction 1 Chandan Sengupta and Stuart Corbridge' 2 Equality or Inclusion : The Dilemma of India's Democracy 8 Meghnad Desai 3.Burden of Exception? Deficits and Deepening of Democratic Development in India 16 Chandan Sengupta 4 The Continuing Reinvention of India 38 John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge 5.Development as Freedom and Justice : An Essay on Sen and Rawls 60 Parthasarathi Mondal 6. Framing the Development Debate : The Case of Farmers' Suicide in India 84 Ritamibhara Hebbar 7.Institutional Credit and Economic Entitlement : Emerging Regional and Sectoral Divides in Maharashtra 111 Abdul Shaban 8.Fiscal Decentralisation and Urban Local Governments in India: An Empirical Review 147 Anita Rath 9.Decentralisation, Women's Rights and Development : Lessons From India and South Africa 172 Jo Beall 10. Social Divisions and Rural Non-farm Sector : Lessons from India 192 Gaurang R. Sahay 11.Development and Change in Agrarian Economy : Aspects of Rural Non-farm Sector in Andhra Pradesh, India 247 Perumula Gopinath 12Privatising Social Opportunity : Trends and Implications for Higher Education in India 247 Anindita Chakrabarti 13 Healthcare Services and Development in India : A Study of Reproductive Health in Jharkhand 283 P. M. Sandhya Rani 14. Public Intervention, Institutions and Human Development in India : T'heory and Evidence 294 Sandhya S. Iyer About the Editors 322 Notes on Contributors 323 Index 326