Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience

✍ Scribed by Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya (editor), Niraja Gopal Jayal (editor), Bishnu N Mohapatra (editor), Sudha Pai (editor)

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Critically examining the concept of social capital in the Indian context, this volume uses three types of case studies. These include: micro-studies in rural India; sectoral studies in the areas of joint forest management, environment and education; and macro-studies of human development indicators that have a dimension of social capital.

Overall, the book demonstrates that civil society in India is mediated by unequal relationships of hierarchy, power and domination, and moreover, it is a society undergoing rapid changes. It therefore highlights the limitations of deploying a theoretical construct in such circumstances.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgement
Introduction
1 - Social Capital, Panchayat s and Grassroots Democracy: The Politics of Dalit Assertion in Two Districts of Uttar Pradesh
2 - Democracy and Social Capital in the Central Himalaya: A Tale of Two Villages
3 - Social Connectedness and the Fragility of Social Capital: A View from a Village in Orissa
4 - Is Civil Society the Answer?
5 - Civic Community and its Margins: Schoolteachers in Rural West Bengal
6 - Classes for the Masses? Social Capital, Social Distance and the Quality of the Government School System
7 - Devolution, Joint Forest Management and the Transformation of ‘Social Capital’
8 - Making Democracy Perform: Human Development and Civic Community in India
9 - ‘Putnam in India’: Is Social Capital a Meaningful and Measurable Concept at the Indian State Level?
10 - Social Network and Protest Movements: The Case of Kerala
About the Editors and Contributors
Index