Australia South Asia Research Centre, ASARC Working Paper 2014/08 Panchayats and Household Vulnerability in Rural India* Raghbendra Jha, Hari K. Nagarajan, Woojin Kang & Kailash C. Pradhan Address all correspondence to: Prof. Raghbendra Jha, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, College of Asia and the Pacific, H C Coombs Building (09), Australian National University, Acton, ACT, 2601 Email: r.jha@anu.edu.au; Phone: + 61 2 6125 2683 Fax: +61-2-6125 0443 *Jha – ANU; Nagarajan – IRMA; Kang – KDI; Pradhan – NCAER