Interrogating social capital [electronic resource] : the Indian experience / edited by Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social capital (Sociology)--India--Case studies.

Social capital (Sociology).

Civil society--India--Case studies.

Civil society.

India--Social conditions--1947---Case studies.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent years have seen the concept of social capital gain increasing currency, besides courting controversy, both in academic social science writing and in the development discourse of multilateral donor agencies. It has been viewed as an explanation for both the flourishing of democracy and economic development, and therefore as the potential key to successful development practices in the developing world. Presenting varied experiences of the interaction between social capital and the democratic functioning of a variety of institutions in India, the essays in this volume subject the notion of

Contents:

Social capital, panchayats, and grassroots democracy / Sudha Pai

Democracy and social capital in the central Himalaya / Niraja Gopal Jayal

Social connectedness and the fragility of social capital / Bishnu N. Mohapatra

Is civil society the answer? / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

Civic community and its margins / Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya

Classes for the masses? / Manabi Majumdar

Devolution, joint forest management, and the transformation of "social capital" / Nandini Sundar

Making democracy perform / Peter Mayer

"Putnam in India" : is social capital a meaningful and measurable concept at the Indian state level? / Renata Serra

Social network and protest movements / Ashok Swain.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-42474-2

9786612424748

81-321-0334-3

OCLC:

593209554