Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience

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Dwaipayan Bhattacharya
SAGE, Dec 8, 2004 - Business & Economics - 335 pages
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 social capital to close and thorough scrutiny. The critique of social capital that this volume provides is strongly anchored in empirical case studies of three kinds:

- field-based micro-studies in rural areas

- sectoral studies in the areas of joint forest management, environment and education

- macro-studies which relate indicators of human development to dimensions of social capital

The contributors explore central issues concerning the inter-relationship between social capital and democracy. Additionally, they address important questions such as: Does social capital inhere in some communities and associations and not in others? Can it be `constructed` and, if so, which are the agencies best suited to do so?

 

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Contents

List of Tables
7
Acknowledgement
13
3
78
4
115
Classes for the Masses? Social Capital Social Distance
165
Devolution Joint Forest Management
203
Human Development
233
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250
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270
117
292
The Case of Kerala
296
About the Editors and Contributors
323
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About the author (2004)

Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya is Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He did his doctoral research on the agrarian politics of the Left at the University of Cambridge, UK, and taught at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, for close to a decade. His main interests are related to democracy, decentralization, civic community and political mobilization in recent times.

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TitleInterrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience
EditorDwaipayan Bhattacharya
Editionillustrated
PublisherSAGE, 2004
ISBN0761932860, 9780761932864
Length335 pages
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Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development
Political Science / History & Theory
Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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