TY - BOOK AU - Pinto, Ambrose, ed. AU - Reifeld, Helmut, ed. TI - Women in Panchayati Raj SN - 8187218355 U1 - 305.42 PY - 2001/// CY - New Delhi PB - Indian Social Institute KW - Women KW - Political activity KW - India KW - Women in development KW - Panchayat KW - Women -- Political activity N1 - "Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung."; Includes bibliographical references; Preface -- Helmut Reifed -- Introduction -- Ambrose Pinto Part I - Problems, Critiques and Reflections -- The 73rd Constitution Amendment and the Experience of Women in the New Pachayati Raj Institutions (PRIs): A Critical Evaluation/ Nirmala Buch -- Women, Panchyats and Rural Power Structure/ B. D. Sharma -- Existing Social Inequalities and Limits of Community Power/ Imtiaz Ahmad -- Resoure Mobilisation: Dependency of the Panchayats/ Amitava Mukherjee -- Controlling Panchayats by Central and State Governments/ Mahi Pal -- Looking to the Future: PAnchayats, Women's Representation and Deliberative Politics/ Shirin M. Rai -- Future Trends and News Perspective/ Ambrose Pinto -- Panchayati Raj and Radical Democracy & Humanism/ R.M.Pal Part II - Experiences of Implementation -- Critical Evaluation of Experience of Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions/ Manu Bhaskar --How Important is the Private/Public dichotony/Devaki Jain -- Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions:Future Trends and New Perspectives/ P. Mainkyamba -- Development, Bureaucracy and Panchayati Raj/ Subhash Mendhapurkar -- Political 'Empowerment' of Women through Legislation: A Case Study of Orissa/ Evelin Hust -- The Role of Women Empowerment in Poverty Alleviation with special refrence to the Panchayati Raj Institutions in Kerala/ Madhu Subramanian & Jacob Thomas -- Summing up of the Discussion -- List of Contributors; . ER -