Civility in crisis : democracy, equality and the majoritarian challenge in India

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
The Indian paradox: High democracy and low civility
	What civility ‘is’ and is ‘not’
	Why civility?
	Civility in crisis and beyond: introducing the chapters
	From democracy to civility
	Notes
	References
Chapter 1: Rural civilities: Caste, gender, and public life in Kerala
	Is there an Indian Public? Multiple publics, gender, caste
		Civility, gender, and space
	Progressive civility
		The rural library
	Private-publics
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Funding
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Christian conundrum: Minority citizens and the incivility of caste
	Fraternity and civility
	Civility and democracy
	Turn to fraternity
	Christianity, caste and civility
	In the final consideration: return to civility via fraternity
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Disjunctions of democracy and liberalism: Agonistic imaginations of dignity in Bihar
	The problem: liberal hegemony of democracy
	Towards an agonistics of democracy
	Bihar: democracy against liberalism
	Repertoires of agonism: vocabularies of dignity
	Idioms of conflict
	Constrained conflict
	Agonistic imaginations of dignity: beyond liberal and postcolonial frameworks
	The agonistics of democracy
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: To be a Hindu citizen: Politics of Dalit migrants in contemporary West Bengal
	The suspect migrant in the Hindu Nation
	Dalit migrants: the worst victims of partition
	‘Refugee versus Infiltrator’: communalisation of the migrant
	The politics of Dalit refugees
	Lok Sabha elections 2019, the CAA and the NRC
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Modernity without alterity: Caste associations and Hindu cosmopolitanism in contemporary Mumbai
	Caste, urbanism and Hindu cosmopolitanism
	What is urban cosmopolitanism?
	Urban cosmopolitanism in India
	Hindu cosmopolitanism
	Caste associations and Hindu cosmopolitanism in Mumbai
	The Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin Sangh
	The Nerul Nair Seva Samaj
	Phadke and caste cosmopolitanism?
	Hindu cosmopolitanism and the impossibility of alterity
	Acknowledgements
	Funding
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Towards greater civility: Public morality and transversal queer/feminist politics in India
	Locating the queer/feminist, the performer of sexual labour and transversal politics
	Contentions over caste, sexuality, and labour: attempts at dialogue
	Attempts at transversal politics: resonances with Dr. Ambedkar’s conception of radical democracy
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Inter-caste accommodations and minimal civility in rural India
	How accommodations are achieved
	Contrasting perceptions, dilemmas and calculations of negotiators: higher castes
	Contrasting perceptions, dilemmas and calculations of negotiators: Dalits
	Perceptions shared by leaders of both groups
	Summing up: accommodations’ ambiguous outcomes
	Afterword: gaining broad acceptance for accommodations
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: An uncivil city*
	World-class city?
	Notes
	Bibliography
Afterword*
	References
Index