Interrogating social capital : the Indian experience / edited by Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social capital, panchayats, and grassroots democracy / Sudha Pai -- Democracy and social capital in the central Himalaya / Niraja Gopal Jayal -- Social connectedness and the fragility of social capital / Bishnu N. Mohapatra -- Is civil society the answer? / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- Civic community and its margins / Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya -- Classes for the masses? / Manabi Majumdar -- Devolution, joint forest management, and the transformation of "social capital" / Nandini Sundar -- Making democracy perform / Peter Mayer -- "Putnam in India" : is social capital a meaningful and measurable concept at the Indian state level? / Renata Serra -- Social network and protest movements / Ashok Swain.