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Title

Re-interrogating civil society in South Asia : critical perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh / edited by Peter B. Andersen, Rubya Mehdi and Amit Prakash.

Publication

New Delhi : Routledge India, 2021.

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• Andersen, Peter B.
• Mehdi, Rubya
• Prakash, Amit

Description

xii, 313 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Preface and Acknowledgements -- -- Chapter 1: Dissemination of Civil Society in South Asia: Introductory Considerations -- Peter B. Andersen, Rubya Mehdi, Amit Prakash and Yasir Sharif -- -- -- Part I: Multifaceted and Local Civil Societies in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh -- Chapter 2: Building Civil Society in Colonial India during the Long Nineteenth Century -- James Jaffe -- Chapter 3: Civil Society in India: What Is It and Where Is It Going? -- Sumona DasGupta -- Chapter 4: Clearing Misconceptions about Civil Society in Pakistan -- Shafqat Munir Ahmad -- Chapter 5: Civil Society, Human Rights and Political Antagonism in Bangladesh -- Morten Koch Andersen -- -- -- Part II: Civil Society's Multiple Hues and Roles -- Chapter 6: Thieves and Khoji's in a Non-State, Collectivist System of Justice under Transformation: An Example from a Village of Southern Punjab, Pakistan -- Rubya Mehdi -- Chapter 7: Dilemmas Facing Civil Society Institutions in Pakistan: A Case for Organized Labour -- Charles W. Amjad-Ali and Karamat Ali -- Chapter 8: Bureaucratic Empowerment as a Tool for Reproduction of Inequalities -- Anna Romanowicz -- Chapter 9: Entertaining the Possibility of Society's Radical Transformation: A Personal View of Women Front (1974-1976) -- Fauzia Rafique -- Chapter 10: The Women's Action Forum, Pakistan: Ideology and Functioning -- Rubina Saigol -- Chapter 11: Madrasas and Religious Maslaks as a Case of Skewed Civil Society in Pakistan -- Yasir Sharif and Peter B. Andersen -- Chapter 12: Striving for Space in Pakistan under COVID-19 -- Sohail Akbar Warraich -- -- -- Part III: Civil Mobilization among Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities -- Chapter 13: The Organization of the Writers' Community as a Linguistic Minority: The Santal Tribe -- Peter B. Andersen, Kumkum Bhattacharya, Ranjit K. Bhattacharya and Boro Baski -- Chapter 14: Imagining Santal Rationality as Empowerment -- Marine Carrin -- Chapter 15: Santals: Language, Lyricism, Emotions and Identity -- Kumkum Bhattacharya and Ranjit K. Bhattacharya -- -- Index
• This book offers an overview of the history and development of civil society in three major nations of South Asia - Pakistan, India and Bangladesh - from colonial times to the present. It examines the liberalization of civil society since the 1980s, the needs it created for civil action, the professionalization of civil society organizations, and the extent to which civil society may benefit society at large in the context of local, national and global transformations in the economy, political regime and ideology. The reader will find new insights on the interaction between the liberalization of multifaceted civil societies in the three countries, presenting contrasts such as restrictions put on women's organizations or labour unions and acceptance of religious organizations' activities. The volume looks at forms of transfer of civil society models, representation and democratic legitimacy of civil society organizations such as nongovernmental organizations, government organized NGOs and faith-based organizations, along with the structuring of civil society through legal frames as well as female, religious, and ethnic mobilizations around language and literature. Using wide-ranging empirical data and theoretical analyses, it deals with civil society issues relating to human rights and political challenges, justice, inequality, empowerment, and the role of bureaucracy, women's movements, and ethnic and linguistic minorities. It also presents early responses to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 which created significant pressure on the states and on civil society. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, development studies, sociology, public policy and governance, law and human rights, as also to professionals in think tanks, civil society activists and NGOs.

Subject

• Civil society > Pakistan
• Civil society > India
• Civil society > Bangladesh
• Religion and civil society
• Société civile > Pākistān
• Société civile > Inde
• Société civile > Bangladesh
• Religion et société civile
• Civil society
• Bangladesh
• India
• Pakistan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780815385264
• 0815385269
• 9781000371635 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000371598 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781003162490 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 1242734858
• on1242734858
• SCSB-14445636

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library