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List of contents
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
About the author
Peter B. Andersen is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Rubya Mehdi is Senior Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and has been Visiting Professor at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
Amit Prakash is Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Summary
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.
