Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship: Dialogues and Perceptions/ Rajeev Bhargava; Helmut Reifeld

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Civil Society and Citizenship in Western Democracies: Historical Developments and Recent Challenges; Forms of Civility and Publicness in Pre-British India; Subjects. Citizenship Dream: Notes on the Nineteenth Century; Notes Towards a Conception of the Colonial Public; An Imperfect Public: Cinema and Citizenship in the Third World; Thinking through Hindi; Genesis or Validation: The Dilemma of Theoretical Conception of the Modernisation of the Public Sphere; Citizenship and the Indian Constitution. Civil Society and its .Underground.: Explorations in the Notion of .Political SocietyCitizenship in Exile: A Dalit Case; Outside the Bounds of Citizenship: The Status of Aliens, Illegal Migrants and Refugees in India; An Emerging Civil Society: The Case of Tibet in Exile; Exploring the Mythology of the Public Sphere; A Look at Theory: Civil Society, Democracy and Public Sphere in India; Women and the Breakdown of the Public Sphere; Nation-building and the Making of Civi.