Forestatement.
I. Overview of Panchayati Raj in India
1. Constitutionalization and Beyond Panchayats as Institutions of Self-Governance and as Instruments for Development/Rakesh Hooja and Meenakshi Hooja.
2. Institutions of self-government or agencies for development: Panchayats in India/Meenakshi Hooja and Rakesh Hooja.
II. Some issues pertaining to Panchayati Raj
3. The third tier of decentralization and separation of powers within PRIs/Meenakshi Hooja.
4. Activating Panchas and Ward Sabhas as a remedy for large, unwieldy Gram Sabhas and dominating Sarpanchas/Meenakshi Hooja.
5. Community-based organizations and Panchayats as instruments of governance in the sphere of watershed development/Rakshat Hooja and Rakesh Hooja.
6. Panchayati Raj policy issues and academic concerns from the Rajasthan viewpoint/Meenakshi Hooja and Rakesh Hooja.
III. Pachayati Raj Rajasthan experiences
7. Continuity and change in Rajasthan's Punchayati Raj/Rakesh Hooja and Meenakshi Hooja.
8. The status of Punchayati Raj in Rajasthan: reflections on some select indicators in the context of the 1994 Act/Rakesh Hooja and Meenakshi Hooja.
9. Some developments in Rajasthan's Panchayati Raj since 2000/Rakesh Hooja.
10. Reflections of applying the provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 in Rajasthan/Meenakshi Hooja.
IV. District and decentralized planning
11. Decentralized planning at the district level: a pre-constitutional amendment perspective/Rakesh Hooja.
12. Training for and expectations from district planners/Rakesh Hooja.
13. The district as a planning unit style and locus/Rakesh Hooja. V. Development administration at district and sub-state levels
14. The delivery system at the district level: a view from the mid-1980s/Rakesh Hooja.
15. Administrative machinery for tribal development at state and lower levels/Meenakshi Hooja. Appendix B. Yerram Raju and Rakesh Hooja.
Index.

Articles chiefly with reference to the state of Rajasthan, India.