Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: democratizing development: issues and actors -- Contesting development, reimagining democracy: grassroots social movements -- National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: access and inclusion in development -- Participatory governance: the paradoxes of development and democracy -- Joint forest management: the making and unmaking of participation -- The Kol resistance: tribal mobilization for land rights -- Collective economies of the poor: the ethics of equity -- Conclusions: development as democracy.

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