Working Paper No. 185 Delegation to Devolution: West Bengal by Manabi Majumdar Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (on lien from MIDS) Indrashis Banerjee Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira Madras Institute of Development Studies 79, Second Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, Chennai 600 020 Tel : 044-24412589 • Fax : 044-24910872 • E-mail : pub@mids.ac.in February 2004