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Nation, religion and language -- Conceptualising nation and nationality in South Asia -- New nationalisms and collective rights: the case of South Asia -- Religious, nationalism and democratic polity in India: an untenable linkage -- Language and nation: for a cultural renewal of India -- Civil society, state and governance -- State, civil society and market in India: gradual autonomisation -- Civil society: religion, caste and language in India -- Civil society and good governance in India: the pre-requisites -- Civil society and the deprived: the relevance of perspective from below -- Movements, policies and modernities -- Movements and policies: a misplaced polarity in social research -- Social movements in the three worlds: a comparative perspective -- Social movements in the Third World: some specificities -- Multiple modernities and the rise of new social movements: the case of India.