Table of Contents

Preface - Helmut Reifeld
Introduction - Rajeev Bhargava
PART ONE: CIVIL SOCIETY, PUBLIC SPHERE AND CITIZENSHIP
Civil Society and Citizenship in Western Democracies - Ute Frevert
Historical Development and Recent Challenge
Forms of Civility and Publicness in Pre-British India - Farhat Hasan
Subject′s Citizenship Dream - Sudhir Chandra
Notes on the 19th Century
Notes towards a Conception of the Colonial Public - Neeladri Bhattacharya
PART TWO: CITIZENSHIP, ART AND THE MODERN PUBLIC SPHERE
An Imperfect Public - Ravi Vasudevan
Cinema and Citizenship in the Third World
The State, Civil Society and Public Sphere - Kumar Shahani
Thinking through Hindi - Alok Rai
Genesis or Validation - Clemens Albrecht
The Dilemma of Theoretical Conception of the Modernization of the Public Sphere
PART THREE: CITIZENSHIP IN INDEPENDENT INDIA
Citizenship and the Indian Constitution - Valerian Rodrigues
Civil Society and Its `Underground′ - Aditya Nigam
Explorations in the Notion of `Political Society′
Citizenship in Exile - Gopal Guru
A Dalit Case
Outside the Bounds of Citizenship - B S Chimni
The States of Aliens, Illegal Migrants and Refugees in India
An Emerging Civil Society - Dagmar Bernstorff
The Case of Tibet in Exile
Exploring the Mythology of the Public Sphere - Neera Chandoke
A Look at Theory - Javeed Alam
Civil Society, Democracy and Public Sphere in India
Women and the Breakdown of the Public Sphere - Anuradha Chenoy
Nation-Building and the Making of Civil Society - D L Sheth

About the Author

Rajeev Bhargava was Professor of political theory and Indian political thought and the Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi, and is a prominent scholar of multi-culturalism and secularism in nonwestern societies. He has held fellowships in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions at the British Academy.

Professor Bhargava is the Editor of Secularism and its Critics (1998) and Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship: Dialogues and Perceptions (2005), and co-editor of Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy (1990) and Transforming India (2000). He is the author of Individualism in Social Science (1992). At present, he is the Director of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.

Helmut Reifeld is at present the Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. Formerly a research fellow with the German Historical Institute, London, and Bayreuth University, Germany, his co edited works include Pluralism and Equality and Women in Panchayati Raj.