Abstract
The paper analyses the experience of post-1995 India’s two major interventions that had an explicit public policy orientation on subnational governance reform (in contrast to more sectoral programmes) – the State Human Development Reports (SHDRs) supported by UNDP and the Development Policy Loans (DPL) supported by the World Bank. It describes the context, process and some of the results of each of these interventions, and also points out their limitations or constraints. In view of the stated reform objectives and agenda of both the interventions, the paper looks at the role of political will, and the challenge of harnessing political will through institutions of parliamentary democracy in India.
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