Re-Interrogating Civil Society in South Asia: Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9780815385264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 314 str.

Peter B. Andersen; Rubya Mehdi; Amit Prakash

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Dissemination of Civil Society in South Asia: Introductory Considerations  Part I: Multifaceted and Local Civil Societies in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh  2. Building Civil Society in Colonial India during the Long Nineteenth Century  3. Civil Society in India: What Is It and Where Is It Going?  4. Clearing Misconceptions about Civil Society in Pakistan  5. Civil Society, Human Rights and Political Antagonism in Bangladesh  Part II: Civil Society’s Multiple Hues and Roles  6. Thieves and Khoji’s in a Non-State, Collectivist System of Justice under Transformation: An Example from a Village of Southern Punjab, Pakistan  7. Dilemmas Facing Civil Society Institutions in Pakistan: A Case for Organized Labour  8. Bureaucratic Empowerment as a Tool for Reproduction of Inequalities  9. Entertaining the Possibility of Society’s Radical Transformation: A Personal View of Women Front (1974–1976)  10. The Women’s Action Forum, Pakistan: Ideology and Functioning  11. Madrasas and Religious Maslaks as a Case of Skewed Civil Society in Pakistan  12. Striving for Space in Pakistan under COVID-19  Part III: Civil Mobilization among Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities  13. The Organization of the Writers’ Community as a Linguistic Minority: The Santal Tribe  14. Imagining Santal Rationality as Empowerment  15. Santals: Language, Lyricism, Emotions and Identity