Civility in Crisis: Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India

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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.

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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. This concept helps analyse why democratic consolidation translates into limited justice and minimal equality, along with increased exclusion and performative violence against marginal groups in India.The volume brings together key themes such as minority citizens and the incivility of caste, civility and urbanity, the struggles for 'dignity' and equality pursued by subaltern groups along with feminism and queer politics, and the exclusionary politics of the Citizenship Amendment Act, to argue that civility provides crucial insights into the functioning and social life of a democracy. In doing so, the book illustrates how a successful democracy may also harbour illiberal values and normalised violence and civil societies may have uncivil tendencies.Enriched with case studies from various states in India, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political science, political philosophy, South Asian studies, minority and exclusion studies, political sociology and social anthropology.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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

Details ISBN0367545918 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2020 ISBN-10 0367545918 ISBN-13 9780367545918 Publication Date 2020-12-24 Author Hugo Gorringe Language English Format Paperback Pages 178 DEWEY 306.20954 UK Release Date 2020-12-24 Imprint Routledge India Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-12-24 NZ Release Date 2020-12-24 Subtitle Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India Edited by Hugo Gorringe Alternative 9780367506414 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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