Author: Rajeev Bhargava
Helmut Reifeld/
Editor(s): Rajeev Bhargava / Helmut Reifeld
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0761998322
Description
Presenting varied experiences of the interaction between social capital and the democratic functioning of a variety of institutions in India, the essays in this volume subject the notion of social capital to close and thorough scrutiny.
The eminent scholars who have contributed to this volume provide numerous fresh insights into issues that have been the subject of extensive debate in recent years. The first book which deals simultaneously with civil society, the public sphere and citizenship in the contemporary context, it also provides a comparative perspective with the West.
Contents
Preface HELMUT REIFELD
Introduction RAJEEV BHARGAVA
I CIVIL SOCIETY, PUBLIC SPHERE AND CITIZENSHIP: Civil Society and Citizenship in Western Demographies: Historical Developments and Recent Challenges UTE FREVERT
Forms of Civility and Publicness in Pre-British India FARHAT HASAN
Subjects’ Citizenship Dream: Notes on the Nineteenth-Century SUDHIR CHANDRA
Notes Towards a Conception of the Colonial Public NEELADRI BHATTACHARYA
II CITIZENSHIP, ART AND THE MODERN PUBLIC SPHERE: An Imperfect Public: Cinema and Citizenship in the Third World RAVI S VASUDEVAN
Thinking through Hindi ALOK RAI
Genesis or Validation: The Dilemma of Theoretical Conception of the Modernization of the Public Sphere CLEMENS ALBRECHT
III CITIZENSHIP IN INDEPENDENT INDIA: Citizenship and the Indian Constitution VALERIAN RODRIGUES
Civil Society and its Underground: Explorations in the Notion of Political Society ADITYA NIGAM
Citizenship in Exile: A Dalit Case GOPAL GURU
Outside the Bounds of Citizenship: The Status of Aliens, Illegal Migrants and Refugees in India B S CHIMNI
An Emerging Civil Society: The Case of Tibet in Exile DAGMAR BERNSTORFF
Exploring the Mythology of the Public Sphere NEERA CHANDHOKE
A Look at Theory: Civil Society, Demography and Public Sphere in India JAVEED ALAM
Women and the Breakdown of the Public Sphere ANURADHA M CHENOY
Nation-building and the Making of Civil Society D L SHETH
INDEX