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January to March 2024 Article ID: NSS8601 Impact Factor:7.67 Cite Score:6707 Download: 114 DOI: https://doi.org/ View PDf
Role of Civil Society in Politics of India
Rafia Banoo Dar
Masters in Political Sciences, Jammu University, Jammu (J&K)
Abstract: There have been
vigorous efforts in contemporary political theory to review the concept of
Civil Society and bring it to the foreground in the academic and policy
discussion. The concept of civil society is one of the key concepts of modern
political analysis since the last quarter of the earlier century and now it is
undoubtedly a significant trend in the process of international development as
well. Initially, the concept of civil society and it's contestations mainly led
a strong Eurocentric or more precisely, western Europe centric bias but now the
debates and discussions regarding it have permeated to the erstwhile socialist block
as well as to different parts of developing and underdeveloped political
cultures as well. This article focuses on
history and practice of civil Society in India searching the old and new
connotations thereof.