‘Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society’ critically unpacks the concept of ‘political society’, which was formulated

Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond? This book seeks to explore this question by

The book examines the influence of context in which elections in contemporary India take place. It explores the interplay of elements of democracy and governanc

Explores new geographies of urban poverty, examining the citizenship, legal status and politics of the rehabilitated poor.

The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations