Description
This book assesses the validity of ‘anti-politics’ critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory.
Chapter
Introduction: THE ANTI-POLITICS MACHINE IN INDIA
Politics within ‘Anti-Politics’
The Anti-Politics Machine and the Indian State
Decentralization and the State
A Brief History of Decentralization in India
State-Society Relationships in India
Towards a Nested Approach
Chapter One: THE IDEA OF ‘ANTI-POLITICS’
The Machine that Depoliticizes
Where Anti-Politics Began
Chapter Two: THE INDIAN ‘ANTI-POLITICS MACHINE’
Is there an ‘Anti-Politics Machine’ in India?
Colonial Rule and the Nature of Rationality
The Newly Independent State
The Unfolding of Indian Democracy
Chapter Three: THE ANTI-POLITICS WATERSHED MACHINE: THE MAKING OF WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
Part I: State Power, Depoliticization and Watershed Development
Part II: The Anti-Politics Watershed Machine
Chapter Four: TWO LANDSCAPES OF DECENTRALIZATION
Looking into the Watershed Machine
Decentralization under Naidu and Singh
Differences in Administrative Arrangements for Watershed Development
Regional Dimensions of Dominance
Depoliticization and the Politics of Selection
Chapter Five: DEPOLITICIZING LOCAL INSTITUTIONS? PANCHAYATS AND WATERSHED COMMITTEES
Discourses, Agencies and the Micro-Politics of Local Bodies
Part I: The Kurnool Villages
Chapter Six: THE DIALECTICS OF CONSENT IN PARTICIPATORY PRACTICE
Consent and Community in Watershed Development
Part I: Consent and the Kurnool Watershed Office
Part II: An NGO and Consent
The Significance of Politics within the Anti-Politics Machine
Decentralization and Depoliticization
Local Institutions and Agencies
Consent and Anti-Politics
Depoliticization and Progressive Politics
The Persistence of Anti-Politics?
Chapter One. The Idea of ‘Anti-Politics’
Chapter Two. The Indian ‘Anti-Politics Machine’
Chapter Three. The Anti-Politics Watershed Machine: The Making of Watershed Development in India
Chapter Four. Two Landscapes of Decentralization
Chapter Five. Depoliticizing Local Institutions? Panchayats and Watershed Committees
Chapter Six. The Dialectics of Consent in Participatory Practice
The Anti-Politics Machine in India
：State, Decentralization and Participatory Watershed Development
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