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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Sociology of Governance and the Grassroots Democracy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Sociology of Governance: Power or Regulation -- 1.3 Sociologically Locating the Study of Governance -- 1.4 The Porous State and the Society: Between the Centralized Consent and the Localized Perceptions -- 1.5 The Social Field and the Study -- 1.6 Locating the Area -- 1.7 Napam -- 2 Locating the State, Power and Governance in the Social Sphere -- 2.1 Governance: Etymology and Concept -- 2.2 Forms of Governance -- 2.3 Formal and Informal Governance -- 2.4 Governance and Social Structure -- 2.5 Governance and Embeddedness -- 2.6 Power, Sociality and Trust -- 2.7 Understanding Sociality -- 2.8 State and Society: A Porous Link -- 2.9 Governmentality and Governance -- 2.10 Structure, Agency and Governance -- 2.11 Knowledge, Governance and Failure -- 2.12 From Government to Governance -- 2.13 Governance Without Government -- 2.14 Culture Governance -- 2.15 Discourses on Good Governance, Development and Civil Society -- 3 Seeing Like a Citizen: People's Everyday Engagement with the State and Governance -- 3.1 Society, State and Governance -- 3.1.1 Precolonial Period -- 3.1.2 The Colonial Period -- 3.1.3 The Present-Day Assam and Governance -- 3.1.4 Social Life of the Village -- 3.1.5 Village-Level Governance and Development -- 3.1.6 Education -- 3.1.7 Problems Affecting Education -- 3.1.8 Maintenance of Primary Education by Panchayat -- 3.1.9 Health: Facility, Perception and Participation -- 3.1.10 Availability of Medicine -- 3.1.11 Suggesting the Better Governance -- 3.1.12 Employment -- 3.1.13 Answer to Unemployment -- 3.1.14 Dispute Settlement -- 3.1.15 Need of the Village -- 3.1.16 Rural Development Programmes -- 3.1.17 Experiencing the Government Office.

This book approaches grassroots governance and democracy from a sociological perspective, focusing on the interaction between the community and the State. It explores the interrelationship between state, governance and community and demonstrates the performativity aspects of both political actors and citizens in various elections in India. It also highlights the need to understand the dynamics of governance in a multi-ethnic society and democracy like India both at the micro and macro levels. Offering detailed explanations of formal and informal governance in peoples everyday lives, it reviews some of the key debates on governance with respect to the engagement of the community. This book is intended for academics, researchers, activists, planners and policymakers from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, public policy, social anthropology, development studies, politics and regional development, interested in governance and development in India.

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