Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/251599 
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Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. 22-206
Publisher: 
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of International Development, London
Abstract: 
In the 75th year of its independence from colonial rule, India confronts grave challenges to its economic and social development and to its democracy. Civil society in India has led the achievement of development goals and civil and political rights since the Gandhian movement of the early 20th century. Presently, however, it finds itself confronting a confluence of crises. The marginalisation of civil society actors by a private sector empowered by economic liberalisation, on the one hand, and majoritarian, populist political forces has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic of the past 2 years. This working paper builds on a lecture delivered on November 26, 2021, at the London School of Economics Department of International Development as part of the #CuttingEdge series. It traces the origins and growing strengths of the forces ranged against civil society and points toward the actions necessary to confront them.
Subjects: 
India
Civil Society
Non-Profit Regulation
Philanthropy
Covid-19
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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