Introduction
Section A: Participatory and Civic Engagement: theoretical roots
1. Participatory and civic engagement in governance: Western theoretical roots
2. Participatory and civic engagement in governance: the non-western theoretical roots
Part A: The Indian tradition: Mahatma Gandhi and localizing governance
Part B: The Chinese tradition: Mao Zedong and commune
Part C: The African tradition: Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa
Section B: Participatory and Civic Engagement: empirical roots in India
3. Historical Trajectories of Localizing Governance
4. Localizing Governance: Earlier Efforts
5. Constitutionalizing Governance at the Grassroots
6. Localizing Governance at the Grassroots: the Unique Indian Experiments in West Bengal, Kerala and Delhi
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor in Political Science at the University of Delhi, India. He is the author of numerous books on Indian Politics and Gandhi. His most recent monograph is Ethics in Governance in India, also published by Routledge (2016).
