TY - BOOK TI - Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India: Understanding Power, Sociality and Trust AU - Das, Amiya Kumar PY - 2023 PB - Springer LA - eng AB - 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. UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=7166010 UR - https://thh-friedensau.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/thhfriedensau/detail.action?docID=7166010 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hk24/detail.action?docID=7166010 SN - 9789811951107 UR - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-1859610897 H1 - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft) ER -