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Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Dissemination of Civil Society in South Asia: Introductory Considerations Peter B. Andersen Rubya Mehdi Amit Prakash and Yasir Sharif Part I: Multifaceted and Local Civil Societies in Pakistan India and Bangladesh Chapter 2: Building Civil Society in Colonial India during the Long Nineteenth Century James Jaffe Chapter 3: Civil Society in India: What Is It and Where Is It Going? Sumona DasGupta Chapter 4: Clearing Misconceptions about Civil Society in Pakistan Shafqat Munir Ahmad Chapter 5: Civil Society Human Rights and Political Antagonism in Bangladesh Morten Koch Andersen Part II: Civil Society’s Multiple Hues and Roles Chapter 6: Thieves and Khoji’s in a Non-State Collectivist System of Justice under Transformation: An Example from a Village of Southern Punjab Pakistan Rubya Mehdi Chapter 7: Dilemmas Facing Civil Society Institutions in Pakistan: A Case for Organized Labour Charles W. Amjad-Ali and Karamat Ali Chapter 8: Bureaucratic Empowerment as a Tool for Reproduction of Inequalities Anna Romanowicz Chapter 9: Entertaining the Possibility of Society’s Radical Transformation: A Personal View of Women Front (1974–1976) Fauzia Rafique Chapter 10: The Women’s Action Forum Pakistan: Ideology and Functioning Rubina Saigol Chapter 11: Madrasas and Religious Maslaks as a Case of Skewed Civil Society in Pakistan Yasir Sharif and Peter B. Andersen Chapter 12: Striving for Space in Pakistan under COVID-19 Sohail Akbar Warraich Part III: Civil Mobilization among Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities Chapter 13: The Organization of the Writers’ Community as a Linguistic Minority: The Santal Tribe Peter B. Andersen Kumkum Bhattacharya Ranjit K. Bhattacharya and Boro Baski Chapter 14: Imagining Santal Rationality as Empowerment Marine Carrin Chapter 15: Santals: Language Lyricism Emotions and Identity Kumkum Bhattacharya and Ranjit K. Bhattacharya Index