Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Interrogate Political Society?
4/ar Gudavarthy
Part I: Political Society and Protest Politics
Chapter 2 Political Society in a Capitalist World
Sivagato Sarkar
Chapter 3 Antinomies of Political Society - Implications
of Uncivil Development
Ajay Gudavarthy and G. Vyay
Chapter 4 Civil Society and the Urban Poor
Supriya RoyCliowdltury
Chapter 5 Contentious Politics and Civil Society in Varanasi
JolieM. F. mod
Chapter 6 The Politics of a Political Society
Ranabir Samaddar
Part II: Political Society, Middlemen and Mobility
Chapter 7 The Pyraveekar. The 'Fixer' in Rural India
G. Ram Reddy and G. Haragopal
Chapter 8 Politics of Middlemen and Political Society
Stuart Corbridgr, Glyn Williams, Maiioj Srivastava
and Rene Veron
Chapter 9 Widows' Organizations in Kerala State, India: Seeking
Citizenship amidst the Decline of Political Society
J. Devika and A. K. Rajasree
Part III; Civil Society and/or Political Society
Chapter 10 Clubbing Togetiicr; Village Clubs, Local NGOs
and the Mediations of Political Society
Tom Harrison
Cdiapter 11 Civic Anxieties and Dalit Democratic Culture:
Balmikis in Delhi
Omar h'nlly
Chapter 12 The Habits of the Political Heart: Recovering Politics
from CJovernmentality
Aparna Sundar and Xandini Sundar
Chapter 13 C^ivil Society in the East and Some Dark Thoughts
about the Prospects of Political Society
Sanjeeb A lukherjee
Part rV: Rejoinder
Chapter 14 The Debate over Political Society
Pardta C.'ltallerjre