Introduction: Civil Society in South Asia
David Taylor and Heewon Kim
1. Does a plural civil society matter? Reflecting on the varieties of associational life in India
Gurpreet Mahajan
2. Partha Chatterjee’s concepts of civil society and ‘uncivil’ political society: Is the distinction valid?
Harihar Bhattacharyya
3. Civil society in Bengal: The postcolonial conundrum
Sanjeeb Mukherjee
4. Catholics, caste and citizenship: Engagements in civil society
Rowena Robinson
5. Community organizations and educational development among Muslims: Lessons from the ‘Kerala Experience’
Mohd. Sanjeer Alam
6. Building language, building province: Civil society and ethnic nationalism in Pakistan
Asma Faiz
Biography
David Taylor has worked at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London and the Aga Khan University in Karachi and London. He is currently Dean of Humanities at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh.
Heewon Kim has her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London, where she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She is currently Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University in the UK.
