The public and the private issues of democratic citizenship / edited by Gurpreet Mahajan in collaboration with Helmut Reifeld.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface -- Helmut Reifeld -- Introduction -- The Public and the Private: Two Modes of Enhancing Democratization -- Gurpreet Mahajan -- Conceptualizing the Public and the Private -- I The Public as a Social Category -- Andre Beteille -- II The Domesticated Public: Tradition, Modernity and the Public/ Private Divide -- Dipankar Gupta -- III The Middle Classes as Public and Private: Culture, Gender and Modernization in -- the Nineteenth century Europe -- Ute Frevert -- IV Of the Social Categories 'Private' and 'Public': Considerations of Cultural Context -- T. N. Madan -- V From a 'Private' Public to a 'Public' Private Sphere: Old Delhi and the North Indian -- Muslims in Comparative Perspective -- Margrit Pernau -- VI The Struggle for Social Justice and the Expansion of the Public Sphere -- Gail Omvedt -- Retrieving the Private -- I Law's Magic and Empire Revisited: Public Spaces and Private Lives - The -- Domain of the Law -- Rajeev Dhavan -- II Transcending Categories: The Private, the Public, and the Search for Home -- Neera Chandhoke -- III Feminism and the Public-Private Distinction -- Patricia Uberoi -- IV Protecting the Individual. Fundamental Rights as Safeguards of the Private Sphere -- Clauspeter Hill -- V Voluntary Action and Citizenship: Issues of Civil Rights -- Aswini K. Ray -- VI Public Ethics and Accountability -- L. C. Jain -- The Public in the Context of Globalization -- I Public Sector in a Market Economy -- Arjun Sengupta -- II Privatization as Reform: Liberalization and Public Sector Enterprises in India -- Kuldeep Mathur -- III NGOs in the Era of Globalization: Reworking the State Citizenship Dialectic -- Harsh Sethi -- IV Creating a Public: Reinventing Democratic Citizenship -- Sarah Joseph -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.