Decentralization & The Local State Under Peripheral Capitalism

The study also provides with new analytical tools to study the political history of the development of local government and the local state in the sub-continent, specially in Pakistan and Bangladesh together with some of the recent positive developments in various Indian states, such as West Bengal, Kerala and Maharashtra to enlighten the whole discussion with a comparative outlook. So far this may be regarded as a pioneering work in the field of central-local relations in the peripheral societies in the post cold war era specially for identifying the paradoxes created between deregulation and re-regulation, be-bureucratisation and re-bureacratesation, democracy and disenfranchisement and finally decentralisation and recentralisation with empirical evidence from the upazila programme of Bangladesh.