The public and the private : issues of democratic citizenship / edited by Gurpreet Mahajan in collaboration with Helmut Reifeld.

Preface / Helmut Reifeld -- Introduction: The Public and the Private: Two Modes of Enhancing Democratization / Gurpreet Mahajan -- Conceptualizing the Public and the Private -- The Public as a Social Category / Andre Beteille -- The Domesticated Public: Tradition, Modernity and the Public/Private Divide / Dipankar Gupta -- The Middle Classes as Public and Private: Culture, Gender and Modernization in 19th Century Europe / Ute Frevert -- Of the Social Categories 'Private' and 'Public': Considerations of Cultural Context / T.N. Madan -- From a 'Private' Public to a 'Public' Private Sphere: Old Delhi and the North Indian Muslims in Comparative Perspective / Margrit Pernau -- The Struggle for Social Justice and the Expansion of the Public Sphere / Gail Omvedt -- Retrieving the Private -- Law's Magic and Empire Revisited: Public Spaces and Private Lives--The Domain of the Law / Rajeev Dhavan -- Transcending Categories: The Private, the Public, and the Search for Home / Neera Chandhoke -- Feminism and the Public-Private Distinction / Patricia Uberoi -- Protecting Individual Rights as Safeguards of the Private Sphere: The German Setting from the Legal Point of View / Clauspeter Hill -- Voluntary Action and Citizenship: Issues of Civil Rights / Aswini K. Ray -- Public Ethics and Accountability / L.C. Jain -- The Public in the Context of Globalization -- Public Sector in a Market Economy / Arjun Sengupta -- Privatization as Reform: Liberalization and Public Sector Enterprises in India / Kuldeep Mathur -- NGOs in the Era of Globalization: Reworking the State-Citizen Dealectic / Harsh Sethi -- Creating a Public: Reinventing Democratic Citizenship / Sarah Joseph.