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Beyond ‘the Net’?: Institutions, elites and the changing power structure in rural Bangladesh David Lewis and Abul Hossain Introduction In common with other countries in South Asia, Bangladesh has for the past three decades been engaged in a local government decentralisation process. This process has taken a distinctive form, initiated as it was by the military government of H.M. Ershad who came to power through a military coup in 1982 and immediately set about trying to build political allies in the rural areas. Ershad’s system led to the formation of new elected councils in the sub-districts