Civil Society in South Asia
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Civil Society in South Asia

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Civil Society in South Asia

About this book

Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond? This book seeks to explore this question by reviewing the debate on civil society mainly in India but also in Pakistan.Civil society is a term that has a rich history in European political and social thought since the 17th century. Yet it has also become shorthand either for groups who place themselves in opposition to state elites or for non- governmental organizations that initiate, often in partnership with international agencies, programmes of economic and social development that to a greater or lesser extent are distanced from the state. The purpose of this collection of essays, initially presented at a seminar in 2018 in Hyderabad in South India, is to explore these disconnects and to see if concepts of civil society can be developed that go with the grain of South Asia's political and historical experience. Some of the chapters in this edited volume focus specifically on theoretical dimensions, while others take case studies from India and Pakistan.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction: Civil Society in South Asia
  9. 1 Does a plural civil society matter? Reflecting on the varieties of associational life in India
  10. 2 Partha Chatterjeeā€™s concepts of civil society and ā€˜uncivilā€™ political society: Is the distinction valid?
  11. 3 Civil society in Bengal: The postcolonial conundrum
  12. 4 Catholics, caste and citizenship: Engagements in civil society
  13. 5 Community organizations and educational development among Muslims: Lessons from the ā€˜Kerala Experienceā€™
  14. 6 Building language, building province: Civil society and ethnic nationalism in Pakistan
  15. Index