This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India. It specifically focuses on small to

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultu

Studies how habits of governance create institutional rigidities that dislodge law-given local autonomy to improve urban public services.

​This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original res

The Indian Constitution provides local institutions with the status of local self-governments. The Constitutional status means that the local governments are on