State, Market and Civil Society : Issues and Interface

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Conceptual issues: 1. State, market and society: the ethical imperative/Victor S. D'Souza. 2. State, civil society and market in development: towards a comprehensive consensus/T.K. Oommen. 3. State, market and society: some emerging trends/Birinder Pal Singh. 4. Social audit of privatization: emerging interface of state, market and society/B.S. Ghuman. 5. Social and business worlds: emerging interface/Rajesh Gill. II. The rural-urban interface: 6. State, market and society: issues and interface in rural and urban India/S.S. Bhatti. 7. Rural-urban interface: the case of an urbanizing village/Rajesh Gill. III. Emerging gender images and family ties: 8. Commodification of women in the economy of a 'market culture': a critique of women's representation in popular media/Anu Celly. 9. Market and Mandira/Sudip Minhas. 10. Rape: socio-economic perspective and its legal regulation/Madhurima and Peeyushi Diwan Jain. 11. State, women and governance: the Indian case/Rajesh Gill. 12. Market, media and gender in globalized Punjab/Rajesh Gill. 13. State, market and gender in India/Kumool Abbi. 14. Electronic media and altered familial spaces: within and without/Rajesh Gill. IV. Corruption: a challenge to Indian society: 15. Flourishing market in a corrupt state and society/A.S. Gill. 16. Corruption in governance: is there a way out/Rajesh Gill. 17. Dwarfed state, extended market and corrupt society/Rajesh Gill. Index.

"The all-pervasive and sweeping influence of market on almost every aspect of human living, coupled with the blurring of the state boundaries in the wake of globalization, has given an altogether different shape and flavour to the contemporary society. This book focuses upon the emerging social realities in this light, especially those relating to civil society, with changed gender equations, modified familial ties etc., haunted by the cancer of corruption, a major deterrent in the way of civil society. The papers in the book underline some of these pertinent issues handled by eminent scholars with an interdisciplinary approach." (jacket)