Abstract This article seeks to make sense of a widely acclaimed political experiment in decentralisation and people-centred development in Kerala of the 1990s, the People’s Planning Campaign, by placing it within a wider contemporary history of politics in the region. Much celebratory literature on this experiment has tended to view it as essentially an extension of pre-existing political initiatives in the state associated with mainstream left parties. Moving away from this view, the present analysis views it as a political response of the mainstream left to various challenges it faced in the early 1990s, to throw light on the many contradictions of political decentralisation in Kerala. Further, it reflects on ‘glocalisation’ of participatory democracy in Kerala and the subject-positions it has produced.

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参与式民主还是“变革性拨款”？喀拉拉邦的人民规划运动

摘要 本文试图理解 1990 年代喀拉拉邦在权力下放和以人为本的发展方面广受赞誉的政治实验，即人民规划运动，将其置于该地区更广泛的当代政治史中。许多关于这个实验的庆祝文献倾向于将其视为与主流左翼政党相关的国家中预先存在的政治倡议的延伸。与这种观点不同，本分析将其视为主流左派对其在 1990 年代初期面临的各种挑战的政治回应，以揭示喀拉拉邦政治权力下放的许多矛盾。此外，它还反映了喀拉拉邦参与式民主的“全球本地化”及其产生的主体地位。