Contents
| Preface Helmut Reifeld | 9 | |
| Introduction Rajeev Bhargava | 13 | |
Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship | ||
| 1. Civil Society and Citizenship in Western Democracies: Historical Developments and Recent Challenges Ute Frevert | 59 | |
| 2. Forms of Civility and Publicness in Pre-British India Farhat Hasan | 84 | |
| 3. Subjects' Citizenship Dream: Notes on the Nineteenth Century Sudhir Chandra | 106 | |
| 4. Notes Towards a Conception of the Colonial Public Neeladri Bhattacharya | 130 | |
Citizenship, Art and the Modern Public Sphere | ||
| 5. An Imperfect Public: Cinema and Citizenship in the Third World Ravi S. Vasudevan | 159 | |
| 6. Thinking through Hindi Alok Rain | 186 | |
| 7. Genesis or Validation: The Dilemma of Theoretical Conception of the Modernisation of the Public Sphere Clement Albrecht | 197 | |
Citizenship in Independent India | ||
| 8. Citizenship and the Indian Constitution Valerian Rodrigues | 209 | |
| 9. Civil Society and its "Underground": Explorations in the Notion of 'Political Society' Aditya Nigam | 236 | |
| 10. Citizenship in Exile: A Dalit Case Gopal Guru | 260 | |
| 11. Outside the Bounds of Citizenship: The Status of Aliens, Illegal Migrants and Refugees in India B. S. Chimni | 277 | |
| 12. An Emerging Civil Society: The Case of Tibet in Exile Dagmar Bernstorff | 314 | |
| 13. Exploring the Mythology of the Public Sphere Neera Chandhoke | 327 | |
| 14. A Look at Theory: Civil Society, Democracy and Public Sphere in India Javeed Alam | 348 | |
| 15. Women and the Breakdown of the Public Sphere Anuradha M. Chenoy | 365 | |
| 16. Nation-building and the Making of Civil Society D.L. Sheth | 384 | |
| About the Editors and Contributors | 402 | |
| Index | 404 |