Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Civil society : historical background
  • Civil society organizations and social activists
  • Civil society and education : reproducing hegemony and inequality
  • Self-employed workers and their empowerment
  • Legal recourse and collective struggles of the subalterns
  • Social movements of the non-poor
  • Narmada Dam : development and displacement
  • Epilogue.