This volume provides an analytical overview of the institutional foundations of the Indian state. By drawing on the insights of some of the most knowledgeable scholars and practitioners with deep knowledge of the Indian bureaucracy, this volume provides a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the functioning of the Indian state, relying on interdisciplinary approaches and decades of practitioner experience. It will be an indispensable guide to understanding Indias capacity to navigate the far-reaching transformations underway.

• List of Tables and Figures


• List of Abbreviations


• Acknowledgments


• 1: Introduction - Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Milan Vaishnav


• 2: The Presidency- James Manor


• 3: Parliament -M.R. Madhavan


• 4: The Supreme Court- Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan


• 5: Reserve Bank of India: The Way Forward- Errol DSouza


• 6: Reforming Indias Institutions of Public Expenditure Governance - Nirvikar Singh


• 7: New Regulatory Institutions in Infrastructure: From De-Politicization to Creative Politics- Navroz K. Dubash


• 8: Institutions of Internal Accountability - R. Sridharan


• 9: Foregrounding Financial Accountability in Governance - Amitabh Mukhopadhyay


• 10: The Civil Service - K.P. Krishnan and T.V. Somanathan


• 11: Election Commission of India- E. Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav


• 12: Re-energising Democratic Decentralisation in India- T.R. Raghunandan


• Index


• Notes on Editors and Contributors

Devesh Kapur is the Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study of Contemporary India and Director, Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania and Non-Resident fellow at the Center for Global Development.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi.
Milan Vaishnav is a Senior Associate in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.