People's Planning Campaign (PPC) was an innovative decentralised planning exercise experimented by the Left Democratic Government in Kerala (1996-2001) for deepening local governance. PPC conceptualised poverty in relation to a host of inequalities such as economic dispossession and political marginalisation in contrast to technocratic and neoliberal prescriptions. Rather than placing faith in either the rational and comprehensive decision-making or incremental institution building championed by public administration and managerial sciences, PPC relied on local experiences emerged through reflexive reasoning and dialectical engagements with citizens. This volume analyses two critical components of the PPC-Women Component Plan (WCP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP)- designed to empower the most marginalised citizens in Kerala: women and the Scheduled Tribes. Through detailed examination of the processes of mobilisation, conscientisation, and citizenship targeting these groups, the book assesses the possibilities and limitations of planning processes devised to politicise and redress the grievances of the dispossessed. In doing so, the analysis contrast the depth of participation, the nature and quality of deliberative processes, and the substantive outcomes of participation for these two marginalised groups, along with a detailed analysis of the reasons for the ineffective media strategies of the PPC and their dysfunctional interventions that failed in countering the hegemonic social and political power structures. About Author : Manjula Bharathy is Professor at the Centre for Urban Policy and Governance, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Ms. Bharathy was a Fulbright Research Scholar (2018-19) in Gender Studies at University of Rutgers, USA and was Chief Operating Officer (2013-15), Kudumbashree Mission, world's largest CBO. She was Member, Central Advisory Committee on Panchayati Raj (2008-10), and Member of Expert Committee on Decentralised Planning for the Sixth Schedule Areas by Government of India. She did research on Engendering and Local Governance in eight Indian states and published articles in national and international journals/­books. She was a special invitee to London School of Economics, Ontario School of Education, and Universities of Toronto, Rosario, and Argentina, and different Universities in California, New Jersey, Florida, Carolina, Arizona, and New Mexico to deliver lectures on Gender and Caste Dimensions of Local Gover­nance in India.