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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000’s, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an important part of the empowerment being realised. The notion of community empowerment, in which the ‘solidarity’ of a group can be a path to individual empowerment, is discussed, as well as analysing how empowerment can be a useful concept in development. Based on case studies of 15 NGOs as well as in-depth interviews with 80 women’s self-help groups, the book highlights the key features of effective empowerment programs. The author uses innovative statistical analysis tools to show how a key factor in empowerment of marginalised women is the accountability relationship between themselves and the supporting NGO. The book goes on to discuss the ways that NGOs can work with communities in the future, and recognises the limitations of a donor-centric accountability framework. It provides a useful contribution to studies on South Asia as well as Gender and Development Studies.

In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, consumption, religion, and politics. Mankekar examines both \"entertainment\" narratives and advertisements designed to convey particular ideas about the nation. Organizing her study around the recurring themes in these shows—Indian womanhood, family, community, constructions of historical memory, development, integration, and sometimes violence—Mankekar dissects both the messages televised and her New Delhi subjects' perceptions of and reactions to these messages. In the process, her ethnographic analysis reveals the texture of these women's daily lives, social relationships, and everyday practices. Throughout her study, Mankekar remains attentive to the tumultuous historical and political context in the midst of which these programs' integrationalist messages are transmitted, to the cultural diversity of the viewership, and to her own role as ethnographer. In an enlightening epilogue she describes the effect of satellite television and transnational programming to India in the 1990s. Through its ethnographic and theoretical richness, Screening Culture, Viewing Politics forces a reexamination of the relationship between mass media, social life, and identity and nation formation in non-Western contexts. As such, it represents a major contribution to a number of fields, including media and communication studies, feminist studies, anthropology, South Asian studies, and cultural studies.

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The Indian state of Kerala is known for its high social model of development and social democratic governance. This book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the Kerala Model of Social Development to date. The model has often been identified as one worth emulating because it is seen to have taken the state to the zenith of human development and democratic governance. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book sheds new light on the paradoxes of the Indian state and its model of economic development. The book provides a consolidated exploration and critique of the Kerala model, which usually has been portrayed as linear with the grand narrative of progress, development and democracy. Chapters discuss the past and present dimensions of the Kerala experience from a historical and political-economic perspective, thus providing a fresh understanding of the emerging concerns in the state and the construction of an ethically viable development agenda, eschewing the scourge of social inequity. A significant contribution to the literature on development, democracy and the state, it analyses the complex interconnectedness of the various political-economic and socio-cultural domains involved in these experiences. 1 The Kerala Model: situating the critique K. RAVI RAMAN PART 1 Historical perspectives: caste, religion and development 2 Caste, public action and the Kerala Model K.T. RAMMOHAN 3 ‘Community’ as de-imagining nation: relocating the Ezhava movement in Kerala J. REGHU 4 Negotiating the Hindu state and nationalism:travails in the making of a community M.M. KHAN PART 2 Contemporary political economy 5 Freedom, economic reform and the Kerala ‘Model’ M.A. OOMMEN 6 On the periphery: Muslims and the Kerala Model M. KABIR 7 Learning to learn: Dalit education in Kerala ROSHNI PADMANABHAN 8 Thinking through CT scanners: the value(s) of imaging technologies in Kerala CAROLINE WILSON 9 Asian Development Bank, conditionalities and the social democratic governance: Kerala Model under pressure? K. RAVI RAMAN 10 The conjuncture of ‘late socialism’ in Kerala: a critique of the narrative of social democracy NISSIM MANNATHUKKAREN PART 3 Gender, space and identities 11 Empowerment or politicization? The limits of gender inclusiveness of Kerala’s political decentralization J. DEVIKA AND BINITHA V. THAMPI 12 The institutionalization of dowry in Kerala: feminine identity, conjugal patronage and development PRAVEENA KODOTH 13 ‘Caring’ cosmopolitans and global migration:plus ça change? SHOBA ARUN PART 4 New social movements: political and cultural perspectives 14 Adivasi workers’ struggles and the Kerala Model: interpreting the past, confronting the present LUISA STEUR 15 Social space, civil society and transformative politics of new social movements in Kerala T.T. SREEKUMAR and GOVINDAN PARAYIL K. Ravi Raman was a Hallsworth Research Fellow (2005–8) in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester and is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, London. He is the author of Global Capital and Peripheral Labour (2010) and co-editor of Corporate Social Responsibility, forthcoming.

Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil. This book is a unique first-hand account - by the group's artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly - of Jana Sanskriti's growth and development since its founding in 1985, which has resulted in a national Forum Theatre network throughout India. Ganguly describes the plays, people and places that have formed this unique operation and discusses its contribution to the wider themes espoused by Forum Theatre. Ganguly charts and reflects on the practice of theatre as politics, developing an intriguing and persuasive case for Forum Theatre and its role in provoking responsible action. His combination of anecdotal insight and lucid discussion of Boal’s practice offers a vision of far-reaching transformation in politics and civil society.

​This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements.It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization.The volume is organised in four sections.

A comprehensive analysis of the Kerala Model of Social Development to date. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it sheds light on the paradoxes of the Indian state and critiques its model of economic development

The product of many years of research, this unique book presents fascinating perspectives on contemporary lesbian life in India and unravels some of the history of lesbian desire from centuries past.