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Civil society, public sphere, and citizenship : dialogues and perceptions / edited by Rajeev Bhargava, Helmut Reifeld.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2005Description: 420 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761998322
  • 9780761998327
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Civil society, public sphere, and citizenship.; Online version:: Civil society, public sphere, and citizenship.DDC classification:
  • 323.60954 22
LOC classification:
  • JQ281 .C58 2004
Contents:
Preface / Helmut Reifeld -- Introduction / Rajeev Bhargava -- 1. Civil society and citizenship in western democracies : historical developments and recent challenges / Ute Frevert -- 2. Forms of civility and publicness in pre-British India / Farhat Hasan -- 3. Subjects' citizenship dream : notes on the nineteenth century / Sudhir Chandra -- 4. Notes towards a conception of the colonial public / Neeladri Bhattacharya -- 5. An imperfect public : cinema and citizenship in the third world / Ravi S. Vasudevan -- 6. Thinking through Hindi / Alok Rai -- 7. Genesis or validation : the dilemma of theoretical conception of the modernisation of the public sphere / Clemens Albrecht -- 8. Citizenship and the Indian constitution / Valerian Rodrigues -- 9. Civil society and its 'underground' : explorations in the notion of 'political society' / Aditya Nigam -- 10. Citizenship in exile : a Dalit case / Gopal Guru -- 11. Outside the bounds of citizenship : the status of aliens, illegal migrants and refugees in India / B. S. Chimni -- 12. An emerging civil society : the case of Tibet in exile / Dagmar Bernstorff -- 13. Exploring the mythology of the public sphere / Neera Chandhoke -- 14. A look at theory : civil society, democracy and public sphere in India / Javeed Alam -- 15. Women and the breakdown of the public sphere / Anuradha M. Chenoy -- 16. Nation-building and the making of civil society / D. L. Sheth.
Summary: Papers presented at a workshop held at Bikaner during 7-10 November 2001.Review: "In recent times, our understanding of state and society has been considerably enriched by the introduction of a framework that draws upon a set of nuanced distinctions between civil society, political society and public sphere, and which has had a profound impact on the way we understand ideas of nationhood and citizenship." "The original, exploratory essays brought together in this volume work within this framework without accepting it uncritically. The contributors examine the relationship between state and society in India, discuss ideas of citizenship, and study the broad area known as the public sphere."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.".

"The essays in this volume emanate from a workshop held at the Gajner Palace in Bikaner between 7 and 10 November 2001"--Page 10.

From one in a series of workshops under a programme called "Dialogue on Values," sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Helmut Reifeld -- Introduction / Rajeev Bhargava -- 1. Civil society and citizenship in western democracies : historical developments and recent challenges / Ute Frevert -- 2. Forms of civility and publicness in pre-British India / Farhat Hasan -- 3. Subjects' citizenship dream : notes on the nineteenth century / Sudhir Chandra -- 4. Notes towards a conception of the colonial public / Neeladri Bhattacharya -- 5. An imperfect public : cinema and citizenship in the third world / Ravi S. Vasudevan -- 6. Thinking through Hindi / Alok Rai -- 7. Genesis or validation : the dilemma of theoretical conception of the modernisation of the public sphere / Clemens Albrecht -- 8. Citizenship and the Indian constitution / Valerian Rodrigues -- 9. Civil society and its 'underground' : explorations in the notion of 'political society' / Aditya Nigam -- 10. Citizenship in exile : a Dalit case / Gopal Guru -- 11. Outside the bounds of citizenship : the status of aliens, illegal migrants and refugees in India / B. S. Chimni -- 12. An emerging civil society : the case of Tibet in exile / Dagmar Bernstorff -- 13. Exploring the mythology of the public sphere / Neera Chandhoke -- 14. A look at theory : civil society, democracy and public sphere in India / Javeed Alam -- 15. Women and the breakdown of the public sphere / Anuradha M. Chenoy -- 16. Nation-building and the making of civil society / D. L. Sheth.

Papers presented at a workshop held at Bikaner during 7-10 November 2001.

"In recent times, our understanding of state and society has been considerably enriched by the introduction of a framework that draws upon a set of nuanced distinctions between civil society, political society and public sphere, and which has had a profound impact on the way we understand ideas of nationhood and citizenship." "The original, exploratory essays brought together in this volume work within this framework without accepting it uncritically. The contributors examine the relationship between state and society in India, discuss ideas of citizenship, and study the broad area known as the public sphere."--BOOK JACKET.

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