Civility in Crisis

This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India.

Autorentext

Suryakant Waghmore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has previously taught at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen. He is the author of Civility against Caste (2013) and occasionally contributes columns in Scroll.in, the Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Outlook, India Today and The Wire.

Hugo Gorringe is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and the Co-Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His research focuses on the interplay between caste, politics and Dalit movements in Tamil Nadu. He is the author of Untouchable Citizens (2005) and Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste and Political Power in South India (2017), as well as numerous articles and chapters on identity, violence, space, caste and politics.

Inhalt

Introduction: Civility in Crisis 1. Rural Civilities: Caste, Gender and Public Life in Kerala 2. The Christian Conundrum: Minority Citizens and the Incivility of Caste 3. Disjunctions of Democracy and Liberalism: Agonistic Imaginations of dignity in Bihar 4. To be a Hindu Citizen: Politics of Dalit Migrants in Contemporary West Bengal 5. Modernity without Alterity: Caste Associations and Hindu Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Mumbai 6. Towards Greater Civility: Public Morality and Transversal Queer/Feminist Politics in India 7. Inter-Caste Accommodations and Minimal Civility in Rural India 8. An Uncivil City