Democratic Transformation and the Vernacular Public Arena in India

Abstract

1. Introduction: The Public Arena and Democratic Transformation in India 2. Politics of Relations and the Emergence of Public Arena: Global Networks of Development and Livelihood in Odisha, Akio Tanabe & Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe 3. Social Politics: Youth Action in the Indian Himalayas, Craig Jeffrey & Jane Dyson 4. Empowering the Publics: Civil Society and Democratic Participation in Rajasthan, Sarbeswar Sahoo 5. News Media and Political Participation: Re-evaluating Democratic Deepening in India, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi 6. Jan Andolans and Alternate Politics in India: Symbiotic Interactions, Publics and News Media in Jan Lokpal Andolan, Anup Kumar 7. Ways of Democracy: Making Politics Work for the Urban Poor, Bishnu N. Mohapatra 8. Re-evaluating the Chipko (Forest Protection) Movement: The Emergence of Publics in the Uttarakhand, Shinya Ishizaka 9. Grassroots and Articulations: Politics and Popular Democracy in Uttar Pradesh Villages, Badri Narayan 10. Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu, South India, Andrew Wyatt 11. Against the Public Sphere: The Morals of Disclosure and the Vernacular Public Sphere in Rural Rajasthan, Anastasia Piliavsky 12. Communal Riots and States: A Comparative Study of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, Norio Kondo