Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-180) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE AND THE TERRAIN OF NON-PARTY -- POLITICAL FORMATIONS -- Development and Its Antinomies -- Development Fissures -- In the Belly of the Beast -- Popular Resistance in the Third World -- A Historical View of the New Grassroots Movement -- Community Development and Social Action Groups -- Internal Differentiations -- The Politicization of Development -- The Debate of the 1980s -- For and Against the Revolution -- The International Development Network and -- Grassroots Organizations -- The Generalized Left and Grassroots Organizations -- The Party Left and Grassroots Organizations -- 2. THEORIZING STATE AND CML SOCIETY -- A Gramscian Outlook -- Contemporary Readings of Gramsci -- Related Scholarship on Grassroots Politics in India and -- Their Conceptual Contributions -- Some Methodological Formulations -- 3. A DISCOURSE OF DEPOLITICIZATION -- Resistant Beginnings -- Setting Up House in the Village -- The Political Economy of Debt-Bondage -- The Politics of Political Work -- The Anti-Politics Machine -- Uncovering Fault Lines -- The Unfreedom of Free Labour -- Development's Amazing Grace -- The Sansad -- Hegemony and Ideology or Contesting Representations -- of the Social -- Reifying the Social -- A Brief History of Depoliticization -- Socializing the Social -- Balancing the Tightrope -- 4. DEVELOPMENT, THE STATE, AND COMMODITY FETISHISM -- Situating Grassroots Development -- Reification and Its Effects -- The Political Economy of Participatory Development -- The D o X f Ef ete f9 0s -- Divergent Meani of Delopment -- A Muddled Convergence -- The Anti-Social Nature of Development -- A Regime of Truth -- The Technicalization of the Social -- Fetish of the Cow and Other Live Creatures -- Hegemony of the oern State -- State Fetishism -- Rationality of e Fesh -- The Economics of Commodity Fetishism -- 5. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE PETIT BOURGEOISIE OR -- THE TRANSLATION OF COERCION INT CONSENT -- The Dialectics of Resistance -- Unmasking the State -- The Aegis of the State -- Individualization through State Structures -- The State Idea/i within Sanghatna Practice -- The Construction of an Ahistorical Subject of Struggle -- The Cultural Basis of the Modern Subject -- A Social History of the Intellectual Class at the Grassroots -- 6. THE NGO-IZATION OF GRASSROOTS POLITICS -- Theorizing the Basis of New Struggles -- Collectivism versus Corporatism -- The Entrapment of Politics in Form -- NGOs as State Formations -- NGOs in the Era of Globalization -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.