This volume is the second in the Governance, Conflict, and Civic Action series. To discuss the state of civil society, the 10 articles in Ethnic Activism and Ci

This volume, the second in the Governance, Conflict, and Civic Action series, examines civil society in South Asia through case studies of different kinds of et

This book examines in rich detail the lives, struggles, and strategies of South Asian activists seeking to advance various political, social, and environmental

This book offers an overview of the history and development of civil society in three major nations of South Asia – Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – from co

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