Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change

Series IIIB, South Asia, Volume 6

 

 

CIVIL SOCIETY IN INDIAN CULTURES

Indian Philosophical Studies, III

 

 

edited by

Asha Mukherjee

Sabujkali Sen

K. Bagchi

 

CONTENTS

 

Introduction

 

Part I. Principles for Civil Society in Indian Thought

 

Chapter I. Civil Society and Reason, Culture and Dissent

by K. Bagchi

 

Chapter II. Pluralism vis-a-vis Cultural Conflict: an Eco-Sociological Analysis of the Future of Man

by Mrinal K. Dasgupta

 

Chapter III. Pluralist Society: a Gandhian Perspective

by George Pattery

 

Part II. Classical Cultural Resources for Civil Society in India

 

Chapter IV. Models of Civic Awareness in Ancient India

by S.K. Pathak

 

Chapter V. Pluralism and Cultural Conflict: Rabindranath Tagore's View

by Sibnarayan Ray

 

Part III. Civil Society and Modern Indian Political Life

 

Chapter VI. Rabindranath Tagore's Concept of Social Integration

by Shyamal Sarkar

 

Chapter VII. Civil Society and Basic Needs in the Public Sector: Economics in India

by Anupam Gupta

 

Chapter VIII. Civil Society and Western Societies: Tradition, Modernity and Communism

by Sanjeeb Mukherjee

 

Chapter IX. Pluralism and Cultural Conflict in India

by Dikshit Sinha