Participatory governance has a long history in India and this book
traces historical-intellectual trajectories of participatory
governance and how older Western discourses have influenced Indian
policymakers. While colonial rulers devolved power to accommodate
dissenting voices, for independent India, participatory governance
was a design for democratizing governance in its true sense.
Participation also acted as a vehicle for localizing governance.
The author draws on both Western and non-Western theoretical
treatises and the book seeks to conceptualize localizing governance
also as a contextual response. It also makes the argument that
despite being located in different socio-economic and political
milieu, thinkers converge to appreciate localizing governance as
perhaps the only reliable means to democratize governance. The book
aims to confirm this argument by reference to sets of evidence from
the Indian experience of localizing governance. By attempting a
genealogy of participatory governance in the West and in India, and
an empirical study of participatory governance in India, the book
sheds light on the exchange of ideas and concepts through space and
time, thus adding to the growing body of literature in the social
sciences on 'conceptual flow'. It will be of interest to political
scientists and historians, in particularly those studying South
Asia.
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