Interrogating social capital: the Indian experience

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Social capital, panchayats and grassroots democracy / Sudha Pai -- Democracy and social capital in the central Himalayas / Niraja Gopal Jayal -- Social connectedness and the fragility of social capital / Bishnu N. Mohapatra -- Society and the realm of freedom / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- 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 -- Is social capital a meaningful and measurable concept at the Indian state level? / Renata Serra -- Social capital and protest movements / Ashok Swain.

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Interrogating social capital: the Indian experience

Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan

Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan

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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

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